Usually means: Fail spectacularly after initial success.
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We found 17 dictionaries that define the word crash and burn:

General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. crash and burn: Merriam-Webster
  2. crash and burn: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. crash-and-burn, crash-and-burn, crash and burn: Collins English Dictionary
  4. crash-and-burn, crash and burn: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. crash and burn: Wiktionary
  6. crash and burn: Dictionary.com
  7. Crash and Burn (Nadia Ali song), Crash and Burn (Pat Travers Band album), Crash and Burn (Savage Garden song), Crash and Burn (Thomas Rhett song), Crash and Burn (book), Crash and Burn (documentary), Crash and Burn (film), Crash and Burn, Crash and burn: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. crash and burn: TheFreeDictionary.com
  9. crash and burn: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. crash and burn: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. crash and burn: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. crash and burn: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Crash and burn: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Crash and burn: Sports Definitions

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verb:  (informal) To fail utterly.

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