crump

Meanings

Noun

• The sound of a muffled explosion.

Verb

• To produce such a sound.
• For one's health to decline rapidly (but not as rapidly as crash).

Adjective

• Hard or crusty; dry baked
• Crooked; bent.

Related

Similar words

• circle the drain

Origin

• Onomatopoeic.
• See crumb.
• From Middle English crump, cromp, croume, from Old English crump, crumb, from Proto-Germanic *krumpaz. Compare Dutch krom ("bent"), German krumm ("crooked"), Danish krum. Related to cramp.