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Slump

//slʌmp// noun, verb, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    A heavy or helpless collapse; a slouching or drooping posture; a period of poor activity or performance, especially an extended period.
  2. 2
    a noticeable deterioration in performance or quality wordnet
  3. 3
    A heavy or helpless collapse; a slouching or drooping posture; a period of poor activity or performance, especially an extended period.; A period when a person goes without the expected amount of sex or dating. broadly, slang

    "TOM. We haven't had sex with each other in five months. MICHAEL. We're in a slump, I know that.""

  4. 4
    a long-term economic state characterized by unemployment and low prices and low levels of trade and investment wordnet
  5. 5
    A measure of the fluidity of freshly mixed concrete, based on how much the concrete formed in a standard slump cone sags when the cone is removed.
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  1. 6
    A form of mass wasting in which a coherent mass of loosely consolidated materials or a rock layer moves a short distance down a slope.
  2. 7
    A crater or depression (an area where the ground slumps) which forms as a result of such wasting. (A large crater is colloquially called a megaslump.) broadly

    "The biggest slump in the world - a mega-slump - is in the Russian taiga. Known as the Batagaika crater, it is a kilometre-long gash in the ground, about 70 metres deep, and growing[…]"

  3. 8
    A boggy place. UK, dialectal

    "The road was all slumps of holes."

  4. 9
    The noise made by anything falling into a hole, or into a soft, miry place. Scotland
  5. 10
    The gross amount; the mass; the lump. Scotland
  6. 11
    A cobbler-like dessert cooked on a stove.

    "a blackberry slump"

Verb
  1. 1
    To collapse heavily or helplessly. intransitive

    "Exhausted, he slumped down onto the sofa."

  2. 2
    fall heavily or suddenly; decline markedly wordnet
  3. 3
    To decline or fall off in activity or performance. intransitive

    "Real estate prices slumped during the recession."

  4. 4
    fall in value wordnet
  5. 5
    To slouch or droop. intransitive
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  1. 6
    fall or sink heavily wordnet
  2. 7
    To lump; to throw together messily. transitive

    "These different groups[…]are exclusively slumped together under that sense."

  3. 8
    assume a drooping posture or carriage wordnet
  4. 9
    To fall or sink suddenly through or in, when walking on a surface, as on thawing snow or ice, a bog, etc.

    "The latter walk on a bottomless quag, into which unawares they may slump."

  5. 10
    To cause to collapse; to hit hard; to render unconscious; to kill. slang, transitive

Etymology

Etymology 1

Probably of North Germanic origin: compare Danish slumpe (“to stumble upon by chance”), Norwegian slumpe (“happen by chance”), Norwegian slumpa (“happen by chance”), Swedish slumpa (“randomize; to sell off”), Swedish slump (“chance, randomness, happenstance”). Compare also German schlumpen (“to trail; draggle; be sloppy”), dialectal Dutch slompen (“to walk clumsily”).

Etymology 2

Probably of North Germanic origin: compare Danish slumpe (“to stumble upon by chance”), Norwegian slumpe (“happen by chance”), Norwegian slumpa (“happen by chance”), Swedish slumpa (“randomize; to sell off”), Swedish slump (“chance, randomness, happenstance”). Compare also German schlumpen (“to trail; draggle; be sloppy”), dialectal Dutch slompen (“to walk clumsily”).

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