crash out

English

Verb

crash out (third-person singular simple present crashes out, present participle crashing out, simple past and past participle crashed out)

1. (informal) To fall asleep from exhaustion.
   • 2006, G. S. Morrison, A Rock and Roll Fantasy, page 85:

     We walked by Eric's room across the hall and I thought maybe he was still up, or maybe crashed out?

2. (informal, computing) To terminate with an unhandled error; to crash.
3. (informal) To be eliminated.
   • 2011, Bill Jones, The Ghost Runner: The Tragedy of the Man They Couldn't Stop:

     After 23 miles, John crashed out of his third attempt at the elusive 40-mile world track record, unable to do any more than clutch his knotted stomach as Lynn Hughes, the vibrant son of a Welsh miner, swept in with a new British best of 4 hours.

   • 2011 January 8, Paul Fletcher, “Stevenage 3 - 1 Newcastle”, in BBC‎^[1]:

     They joined Sunderland and Middlesbrough in crashing out of the competition at the third-round stage this season.

4. (transitive) To produce or create rapidly; to bang out.
   • April 5 2022, Tina Brown, “How Princess Diana’s Dance With the Media Impacted William and Harry”, in Vanity Fair‎^[2]:

     Pasternak told me that she and Hewitt “met halfway between Devon and London in a field, and he said, ‘Diana wants the story told but with two conditions. One, it has to come out before Morton’s second book, and two, it has to be a love story.’ ” To oblige her, Pasternak says she crashed it out in five weeks.

     adapted from the book The Palace Papers, published 2022 by Penguin Books

5. (chemistry) To rapidly precipitate.
   • 2006, Adam M. Schwartzberg, Synthesis, Optical Properties, and Sensing with Gold Nanoparticles, Aggregates, and Hollow Gold Nanospheres, page 135:

     These solutions, however, were unstable and immediately crashed out.

   • 2013, Jie Jack Li, E. J. Corey, Drug Discovery: Practices, Processes, and Perspectives:

     One of the biggest challenges of in vitro assays is dealing with compounds that have low aqueous solubility that crash out of solution when they are added to the assay buffer or culture medium.

   • 2015, John T. Moore, Chris Hren, Peter J. Mikulecky, U Can: Chemistry I For Dummies, page 267:

     A supersaturated solution is unstable; solute molecules may crash out of solution given the slightest perturbation.

6. To become uncontrollably angry or upset.

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