crash dive

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   a rapid descent by a submarine

   Broaderdescent

Questions about crash dive

What does crash dive mean?

crash dive means "a rapid descent by a submarine".

Is crash dive a common word?

crash dive is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.