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'Gatecrasher', originally slang but now in common usage, refers to a person who enters some event without a ticket or invitation. The term gatecrasher, though it sounds like someone battering down a barrier, more typically refers to someone sneaking in, or talking their way past a ticket taker, or some other stealthy technique, rather than a confrontational encounter.
'Gatecrasher' is also similar in meaning to turnstile jumper, a person who, for example, rides a subway by slipping over or around a turnstile without payment.
In gaming
In Diablo 2, of the Diablo line of games from Blizzard North, the term 'Gatecrasher' refers to a player's character which is created to assist in rushing (getting another character 'promoted' to a later stage of the game than it could attain without assistance) by means of the gatecrasher questing through act one and two, up until the point where Duriel's lair in The True Tomb of Tal Rasha is opened by inserting the Horadric Staff into The Orifice. The gatecrasher character then kills Duriel but exits the game without 'exploring' Tal Rasha's Chamber .
At this point, any game created by the gatecrasher will have an open tomb, and a dead Duriel. This allows the "rushee" character to pass through Act Two quickly, by merely kicking the Claw Viper Altar, entering a town portal to the Arcane Sanctuary, exiting the portal, then entering a portal to the Summoner's Platform and going through the Red Portal to the Canyon of the Magi, exiting and then entering a portal to the Orifice, and walking through to the end of the Final Act Two Quest. After that the character must talk to the non-player characters (NPCs)Drognan the sage, Jerryn the harem master, and Meshif the sailor. Though it takes some time to describe this process, a fast rusher can get a character from Act One through to Act Four in a very few minutes, using a gatecrasher and another powerful character which has completed the game.
This meaning of gatecrasher may be applied similarly to other games. see: Diablo II
U.K. Clubs
Gatecrasher is a popular House music club originally formed in Birmingham England
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