crash out

verb

to create quickly and sloppily

Wiktionary

noun

Etymology: From crash + out. References online to the slang sense go as far back as a Twitter post from 2013, attributed to YoungBoy Never Broke Again, a rapper from Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Popularized by a December 2023 viral TikTok video.

A reckless individual, often with nothing to lose; a person prone to crashing out.
“Niggas really be crash outs wit no motion biggest life asset be a pistol that shit crazy”
“calling all crashouts in atlanta, please put this nigga in a blender 🙏🏾”
An instance of being uncontrollably angry or upset.
“Ms. Toro, a 30-year-old project manager, documented her “crash out” in a video that has raced to more than 600,000 views, joining the ranks of countless TikTok users who have employed some iteration of the phrase to describe their burst of emotions — and at times, intentional overreactions.”

verb

To fall asleep from exhaustion.
“He crashed out after a long day of work.”
“We walked by Eric's room across the hall and I thought maybe he was still up, or maybe crashed out?”
To terminate with an unhandled error; to crash.
“Harry didn't know why but the computer crashed out all of a sudden.”
To be eliminated from a competition.
“He crashed out at the second round of the tournament.”
“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.”
To produce or create rapidly; to bang out.
“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.”
To rapidly precipitate.
“These solutions, however, were unstable and immediately crashed out.”
“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.”
To become uncontrollably angry or upset; to rage, snap.
“Losing six games in a row was enough to make my friend start crashing out.”
“But instead of crashing out over, say, Haitian immigrants allegedly eating cats and dogs in Ohio, Piker’s guests will argue over things like “What’s the best cheese?” or “Is Five Guys a fast-food restaurant?””
To break out of a prison.
To act out recklessly and violently, often in a way that leads to self-destruction or serious consequences, typically in enraged reaction to something.