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Your question reflects a very common trend to use a given word in another part of speech, eg, CRASH: n: when there is a security ~ vb: ~ the White House [fr West Wing] adj: in the ~ mode
That doesn't answer your q; but I suppose by the purists the practice is still considered vulgar
PS: Can anyone suggest a way to use ~ as an adverb
"Arrive" hasn't changed part of speech here, just had an added transitive sense. The other way of saying it that occurred to me was "check in" which can be used transitively or intransitively.
"Crash", btw, has been used as a noun since at least the 16th century. Nouns and adjectives have slopped over each other since before the beginning. Even classical Latin did it.
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