/kɹʌmp/
- The sound of a muffled explosion.
“And there was another bit [of a hymn]: ‘To an inheritance incorruptible. … Through faith unto salvation, Ready to be revealèd at the last trump.’ For ‘trump’ we always used to sing ‘crump.’ ‘The last ”
“Crump, crack! A shell exploded near them and the whole aircraft yawned to port as if somebody had punched it through the sky.”
“Above this grey skyline slowly lifting clouds of dirty smoke rose into the morning air as the salvoes of Japanese shells exploded with a delayed crump.”
- intransitiveTo produce such a sound.
““Mortars crumped, and from the high ground to the east and south came the shriek of 88-millimeter shells, green fireballs that whizzed through the dunes at half a mile a second, trailing golden plumes”
- US, intransitiveTo decline rapidly in health (but not as rapidly as crash).
“I can only be in one place at a time, so sometimes I just have to say, “Listen, I’ve got this other patient that’s crumping down the hall.[”]”
“if the patient is acutely crumping from cardiac arrest, do not waste time doing an ECG when you could be performing CPR.”
“Not to be confused with the dance style, doctors use 'crumping' when they have a patient that is 'crashing, but not aggressively,' the Chicago doctor told Daily Mail Online.”
- Scotland, UK, dialectalHard or crusty; dry baked
- obsoleteCrooked; bent.
“Crooked backs and crump shoulders.”
- countable, uncountableA surname from Middle English. See Crump for history and meaning!
- countable, uncountableAn unincorporated community in Garfield Township, Bay County, Michigan, United States.
- countable, uncountableAn unincorporated community in Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, United States.
- countable, uncountableA city in Hardin County, Tennessee, United States.
Formscrumps(plural) · crumps(present, singular, third-person) · crumping(participle, present) · crumped(participle, past) · crumped(past) · more crump(comparative) · most crump(superlative) · Crumps(plural)