Crush: Encyclopedia - Crush

Crush

Crush may mean:

• A short-lived and unrequited love, infatuation, or Limerence, especially prevalent among young people but not unheard of for people of any age, as in "I have a crush on [insert person's name here]". A crush also refers to the object of this infatuation, as in the phrase "secret crush".

In music:

• Crush (album), an album by Bon Jovi.
• An album by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark.
• A song by country singer Lila McCann.
• A song by Jennifer Paige.
• A song appearing on the album Clarity by Jimmy Eat World.
• A song appearing on the studio album Before These Crowded Streets by the Dave Matthews Band. It also appears on the live album The Central Park Concert.
• Orange Crush, a song appearing on the album Green by R.E.M.. It was also released as a single.

Other uses:

• Crush (film), a 2001 movie featuring Andie MacDowell.
• Crush (game show), a game show hosted by Andrew Krasny formerly on the USA network.
• The Crush, a 1993 movie.
• Orange Crush, an American soft drink that was particularly popular in the 1970s and 1980s.
• Crush fetish, a sexual desire to crush animals and objects or watch them be crushed.
• One of the characters portrayed by professional wrestler Brian Adams during his employment with the World Wrestling Federation.
• A popular Canadian East Coast Music Award-winning band.
• A British children's game show broadcast on CBBC.
• The codename for NVIDIA's nForce chipset for the Athlon processor.

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