crump (out) v.
1. (US campus) to pass out through exhaustion, boredom or alcohol; thus crumped (out), adj., passed out drunk.
![]() | Down 243: ‘Old man crumped out?’ he asked. | |
![]() | Entry E (1961) 62: It’s just a question of who has the money when everyone else crumps out. | |
![]() | (con. WWII) Goodbye to Some 244: We took about eight dames out on it. Everyone was loaded [...] Dames were crumped out all over the place. | |
![]() | What’s the Good Word? 213: In the late fifties [we] used the expression crumped out often. When we were tired, we would ‘crump out’. |
2. (US) of machinery, to break down.
![]() | Carrying the Fire 284: If the Saturn V crumped, it was a whole new ball game. | |
![]() | (con. late 1950s) What’s the Good Word? 213: Once in a while our hair dryers or some mechanical apparatus would also ‘crump out.’. |
3. (US) to die.
![]() | Horn 133: Man, you kill me, I’ll die, I’ll crump... | |
![]() | House of God 77: The Yellow Man and the Runt [are] both about to crump. |
4. (US) to kill.
![]() | Stairway to the Sea 55: Hamlet is big buds with this other cat, Horatio, [...] but all he can think about is the way his uncle crumped his old man. |
5. (US) to destroy.
![]() | Red Flag 128: So you think you shacked the target, crumped it, waxed it? |