crash blossom noun1 •A sentence, often a news headline, that is subject to incorrect interpretation due to syntactic and/or lexical ambiguity.Nouns that can be misconstrued as verbs and vice versa are, in fact, the hallmarks of the crash blossom. Take this headline, often attributed to The Guardian: “British Left Waffles on Falklands.” — 2010 formscrash blossoms
