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slump
/slʌmp/
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What does slump mean?
verb
- To collapse heavily or helplessly.
- To decline or fall off in activity or performance.
- To slouch or droop.
More meanings (13)
verb
- To lump; to throw together messily.
- To fall or sink suddenly through or in, when walking on a surface, as on thawing snow or ice, a bog, etc.
- (slang) To cause to collapse; to hit hard; to render unconscious; to kill.
noun
- A heavy or helpless collapse; a slouching or drooping posture; a period of poor activity or performance, especially an extended period.
- (slang) A period when a person goes without the expected amount of sex or dating.
- A period of poor performance.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.)
- A boggy place.
- The noise made by anything falling into a hole, or into a soft, miry place.
- The gross amount; the mass; the lump.
- A cobbler-like dessert cooked on a stove.
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IPA pronunciation
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Do not stop in the middle and exclaim, "How silly!"--and then slump into the tired state again.
Night work by clerks, also, is taken by some office managers to indicate a slump in industry during the day.
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A "slump" is just the reverse, being an unaccountable depression which sometimes fastens upon the specula- tive world, and betrays distrust in everything.
On short voyages it makes no such exposure of itself; it hasn't time to slump down to this sorrowful level.
However, even if the heap starts out fluffy enough to permit adequate airflow, as the materials decompose they soften and tend to slump together into an airless mass.