crump
See also: Crump
English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Onomatopoeic.
Noun
crump (plural crumps)
- The sound of a muffled explosion.
- 1929, Robert Graves, Goodbye to All That:
- [hymn] "To an inheritance incorruptible . . . Through faith unto salvation, Ready to be revealed at the last trump." For "trump" we always used to sing "crump." A crump was German five-point-nine shell, and "the last crump" would be the end of the War.
- 1999, Kate Atkinson, Behind the Scenes at the Museum:
- Crump, crack! A shell exploded near them and the whole aircraft yawned to port as if somebody had punched it through the sky.
- 2000, Richard Woodman, The Darkening Sea:
- 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.
- 2008, Paul Wood, BBC News. Taking cover on Sderot front line
- "Now you can see what life is like for us here," said Yakov Shoshani, raising his voice to make himself heard over the sound of a loud crump.
Verb
crump (third-person singular simple present crumps, present participle crumping, simple past and past participle crumped)
- (intransitive) To produce such a sound.
- 2007 September 28, William Grimes, “In Middle Leg of the Race, the Prize Was Italy”, in New York Times[1]:
- “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 of dust.”
Etymology 2
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Verb
crump (third-person singular simple present crumps, present participle crumping, simple past and past participle crumped)
- (intransitive, US, medical slang) For one's health to decline rapidly (but not as rapidly as crash).
- 1998, Marsha E. Fonteyn, Thinking Strategies for Nursing Practice, Lippincott, page 167:
- 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.[”]
- 2009, Kevin Schwechten, USMLE Step 3 Triage: An Effective, No-nonsense Review, Oxford University Press, page 4:
- if the patient is acutely crumping from cardiac arrest, do not waste time doing an ECG when you could be performing CPR.
- [2017 December 30, Natalie Rahhal, “The secret codes doctors use to INSULT their patients right in front of them - and why the lingo harms your health care”, in Daily Mail Online[2]:
- 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.]
Synonyms
Etymology 3
See crumb.
Adjective
crump (comparative more crump, superlative most crump)
Etymology 4
From Middle English crump, cromp, croume, from Old English crump, crumb (“stooping, bent, crooked”), from Proto-Germanic *krumbaz, *krumpaz (“bent”). Compare Dutch krom (“bent”), German krumm (“crooked”), Danish krum. Related to cramp.
Adjective
crump (comparative more crump, superlative most crump)
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