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Crump

//kɹʌmp// adj, name, noun, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Hard or crusty; dry baked Scotland, UK, dialectal

    "a crump loaf"

  2. 2
    Crooked; bent. obsolete

    "Crooked backs and crump shoulders."

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname from Middle English. See Crump for history and meaning! countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    A placename; An unincorporated community in Garfield Township, Bay County, Michigan, United States. countable, uncountable
  3. 3
    A placename; An unincorporated community in Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, United States. countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    A placename; A city in Hardin County, Tennessee, United States. countable, uncountable
Noun
  1. 1
    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?"

Verb
  1. 1
    To produce such a sound. intransitive

    "“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.”"

  2. 2
    To decline rapidly in health (but not as rapidly as crash). US, intransitive

    "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.[”]"

  3. 3
    explode heavily or with a loud dull noise wordnet
  4. 4
    bombard with heavy shells wordnet
  5. 5
    make a noise typical of an engine lacking lubricants wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

Onomatopoeic.

Etymology 2

Onomatopoeic.

Etymology 3

See crumb.

Etymology 4

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.

Etymology 5

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.

Etymology 6

* 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.

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