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Verb: crash and burn (crashed and burned,crashing and burning,crashes and burns)
Usage: informal
  1. Fail badly
    "How many contracting businesses will crash and burn this year?";
    - tank [N. Amer, informal], bomb [informal]

Derived forms: crashes and burns, crashed and burned, crashing and burning

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