Noun: crash course
- A rapid and intense course of training or research (usually undertaken in an emergency)
"he took a crash course in Italian on his way to Italy"; "his first job was a crash course in survival and in learning how to get along with people";
- crash program, crash programme
Derived forms: crash courses
Type of: course of study, curriculum, program [N. Amer], programme [Brit, Cdn], syllabus
Encyclopedia: Crash course