crump

noun

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?”

   “Crump, crack! A shell exploded near them and the whole aircraft yawned to port as if somebody had punched it through the sky.”

   “Above this grey skyline slowly lifting clouds of dirty smoke rose into the morning air as the salvoes of Japanese shells exploded with a delayed crump.”

   “"Now you can see what life is like for us here," said Yakov Shoshani, raising his voice to make himself heard over the sound of a loud crump.”

verb

1. (intransitive)To produce such a sound.

   ““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. (US, intransitive)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.”

   “Not to be confused with the dance style, doctors use 'crumping' when they have a patient that is 'crashing, but not aggressively,' the Chicago doctor told Daily Mail Online.”

adj

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

   “a crump loaf”

2. (obsolete)Crooked; bent.

   “Crooked backs and crump shoulders.”

name

1. (countable, uncountable)A surname from Middle English. See Crump for history and meaning!
2. (countable, uncountable)A placename
3. (countable, uncountable)A placename
4. (countable, uncountable)A placename