crump

verb

to make a sound like an engine lacking lubrication

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Pronunciation: /kɹʌmp/

adj

Etymology: From Middle English crump, cromp, croume, from Old English crump, crumb (“stooping, bent, crooked”), from Proto-West Germanic *krump, from Proto-Germanic *krumpaz, *krumbaz (“bent”). Compare Dutch krom (“bent”), German krumm (“crooked”), Danish krum. Related to cramp.

Crooked; bent.
“Crooked backs and crump shoulders.”

name

Etymology: * As an English surname, from the adjective crump (“crooked”). Compare Croom. * As a German and Dutch surname, Americanized from Krump (see Krumm and Ruhm) and Kramp.

A surname from Middle English.
“In a news conference Monday afternoon, civil rights attorney Ben Crump, who represents Massey’s family, connected her death to other cases of police violence against Black people across the US. […] Crump referenced what Grayson said – “I’ll f**king shoot you in the f**king face” – before Massey was shot.”
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noun

Etymology: Onomatopoeic.

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’ was the end of the war and would we ever hear it burst safely behind us?”
“Crump, crack! A shell exploded near them and the whole aircraft yawned to port as if somebody had punched it through the sky.”

verb

To 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.”