Crash

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Contents 1 Popular culture 2 Medical 3 Police

Crash may refer to:

• Collision, a physical crash, often of two vehicles, especially
  • Motor-vehicle collision, a collision between ground vehicles
  • Crash test, testing motor vehicles for crash compatibility
  • Accidents and incidents in aviation, between flying vehicles
• Crash (computing), a common term for a computer fault
• Stock market crash, in finance
• Crash cymbal, a type of cymbal that is commonly found in drum kits, often used for a cartoon "crash" sound-effect
• Crash (Schedule duration), the effort to reduce the overall duration of a schedule
• "Crash", a group of Rhinoceros
• "Crash", a starched web of fabric used in bookbinding to connect a textblock to the bookboard/cover
• Crash convention, a bridge convention used over an opposing opening which does not specify a suit
• Crash cover, a cover (envelope) that have been recovered from a fixed-wing aircraft, airship crash, or other aviation accident
• Crash (card game), a British card game based on the game of Brag

[edit] Popular culture

In literature:

• Crash (1973 novel), a controversial J. G. Ballard novel about people who are sexually aroused by car crashes
• Crash (1996 novel), by Jerry Spinelli

In film:

• Crash (1996 film), a 1996 film directed by David Cronenberg based on the J. G. Ballard book of the same name
• Crash (2004 film), a 2004 Academy Award-winning film directed by Paul Haggis about racial and social tensions in Los Angeles
• Crashing, a 2006 film, directed by Joe and Anthony Russo

In music:

• Crash (Human League album), a 1986 album by The Human League
• Crash (Dave Matthews Band album), a 1996 album by Dave Matthews Band
• "Crash" (The Primitives song), a 1988 song by Coventry band The Primitives
• "Crash" (Feeder song), a 1997 song by British indie rock band Feeder
• "Crash" (Gwen Stefani song), a 2004 song by Gwen Stefani
• "Crash Into Me", a 1996 song by the Dave Matthews Band, popularly referred to as "Crash"
• The Crash (band), a Finnish pop-rock band
• Crash (band), South Korean Thrash-metal band
• Crash (Polish band), a jazz-rock band from Warsaw, Poland, that performed in the 1970's and '80's
• Crash (Swedish band), a metal band from Gothenburg, Sweden
• Billy "Crash" Craddock, a 1970s country music star
• Gatecrasher or Crasher, a trance music nightclub in Sheffield UK
• Crash Music Inc., a record label
• Crash Test Dummies, Canadian folk rock ground

In magazines:

• CRASH (magazine), a magazine dedicated to the ZX Spectrum published in the UK from 1983 to 1992

In comics:

• Crash, a 1988 Iron Man graphic novel by Mike Saenz, one of the earliest uses of computer art in comics

In video games:

• Crash Bandicoot (video game), a platform video game series by Naughty Dog
• Crash Bandicoot (character), the character from the video game series with the same name
• Crash, a character from Quake III Arena
• Crash, one of the main characters from the video game Crash 'n the Boys: Street Challenge

People:

• John "Crash" Matos, a popular graffiti artist
• Crash was the ring name for Mike Lockwood in WWE

[edit] Medical

• Cardiac arrest, slang, mainly British, same usage as American medical slang term code
• Used in America, used to describe when a patient is deteriorating rapidly

[edit] Police

• Community Resources Against Street Hoodlums, a special anti-gang unit of the Los Angeles Police Department