Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To crush or crunch with the teeth.
- intransitive verb To strike heavily with a crunching sound.
- intransitive verb To make a crunching sound, especially in walking over snow.
- noun A crunching sound.
- noun The sound of an exploding shell.
- noun A heavy blow.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Crooked; bent.
- To make a crunching noise, as in eating what is hard and brittle; emit a creaking sound, as snow when crushed under the feet; crunch.
- To bend; crook.
- To be out of temper.
- To become perverted or corrupt.
- Brittle; crusty; dry-baked; crisp.
- noun A deformed or crooked person.
- noun The cramp.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Crooked; bent.
- adjective Prov. Eng. & Scot. Hard or crusty; dry baked.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The sound of a
muffled explosion . - verb intransitive To produce such a sound.
- adjective UK, Scotland, dialect Hard or crusty; dry baked
- adjective obsolete
crooked ;bent
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb bombard with heavy shells
- verb explode heavily or with a loud dull noise
- verb make a noise typical of an engine lacking lubricants
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The taxi drives through Tavistock Square, it is nearly 9.45am, as we leave the Square there is a dull 'crump' noise.
Archive 2005-11-01 Rachel 2005
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The taxi drives through Tavistock Square, it is nearly 9.45am, as we leave the Square there is a dull 'crump' noise.
Well, I watched the documentary Rachel 2005
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I observed that sometimes these "crump" holes were very small, and found that after all in this war a small man had some advantage over me.
"The Red Watch" With the First Canadian Division in Flanders John Allister Currie
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I could hear the shells coming as the field was dotted here and there with "crump" holes or craters where shells had fallen.
"The Red Watch" With the First Canadian Division in Flanders John Allister Currie
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I had not gone far when a "crump" struck so close as to stun and partly bury me.
The Emma Gees Herbert Wes McBride
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Followed a burst of shrapnel and one more "crump," and the enemy's retaliation on the 9.2 and its crew had ceased.
Attack An Infantry Subaltern's Impression of July 1st, 1916 John Masefield 1929
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Provided that your sentry's nerves are all right, and that a "crump" does not drop right into his little section of trench, there is not much that can go wrong.
Letters from France 1923
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Meanwhile, the climate change hysterics are trapped in their nightmare of tsunamis and things that go "crump" in the dark.
SYNTAGMA 2009
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"crump" hole where a shell had fallen and exploded!
"The Red Watch" With the First Canadian Division in Flanders John Allister Currie
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Instead it was the crump and whomp of the howitzer as those hills were blasted out.
Perquampi Andrew Edwards 2011
bilby commented on the word crump
In winter trenches, cowed and glum,
With crumps and lice and lack of rum,
He put a bullet through his brain.
No one spoke of him again.
- Siegfried Sassoon, 'Suicide in the Trenches'.
July 23, 2009
bilby commented on the word crump
Boris Johnson, Scott Morrison, Donald Trump:
A bozo, a flim-flam, a grump.
After years of their guff
We'd all had enough
And they were dispatched with a satisfying crump!
July 8, 2022