Usually means: Rapid submarine descent to avoid detection.
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We found 17 dictionaries that define the word crash dive:

General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. crash-dive, crash dive: Merriam-Webster
  2. crash-dive, crash-dive: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. crash-dive, crash dive: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. crash-dive, crash-dive, crash dive: Collins English Dictionary
  5. crash-dive, crash dive: Vocabulary.com
  6. crash-dive: Wordnik
  7. crash-dive, crash dive: Wiktionary
  8. crash-dive, crash dive: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. crash dive: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. crash-dive, crash dive: Dictionary.com
  11. Crash Dive, Crash dive: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. crash-dive, crash dive: Rhymezone
  13. crash-dive, crash dive: FreeDictionary.org
  14. crash-dive, crash dive: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. crash-dive, crash dive: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Crash Dive (movie), crash-dive, crash dive: Encyclopedia

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Crash dive: Sports Definitions

(Note: See crash-dive as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (crash dive)

noun:  (idiomatic, military) An emergency maneuver by a submarine in which it suddenly descends, especially to considerable depth, usually in order to escape an attack or avoid a collision.
noun:  A rapid descent by a person or thing, ending in a violent collision.
noun:  (trampoline) Three quarters of a front somersault, beginning on the feet and landing on the back.
verb:  (intransitive, idiomatic, often hyphenated, submarine operation) To perform a crash dive.
verb:  (transitive, idiomatic, often hyphenated, submarine operation) To cause (a submarine) to perform a crash dive.
verb:  (intransitive, often hyphenated) To rapidly descend, intentionally or accidentally, in a manner that ends in a violent collision.
verb:  (transitive, often hyphenated) To rapidly descend, in a manner that ends in a violent collision with (something).
verb:  (transitive, often hyphenated) To cause (something) to descend rapidly, in a manner that ends in a violent collision.

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