crash out
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crash out
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From crash + out. References online to the slang sense go as far back as a Twitter post from 2013, attributed to YoungBoy Never Broke Again, a rapper from Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Popularized by a December 2023 viral TikTok video. The earliest clear printed use turns up in a 1940 crime novel called High Sierra by W. R. Burnett. A character sits thinking about escape and says:
All I thought about was a crash out. I tried it once.
verb crashes out · crashing out · crashed out
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To fall asleep from exhaustion.
He crashed out after a long day of work.
Similar: crash
- To terminate with an unhandled error; to crash. Harry didn't know why but the computer crashed out all of a sudden.
- To be eliminated from a competition. He crashed out at the second round of the tournament.
- To produce or create rapidly; to bang out. Pasternak told me that she and Hewitt “met halfway between Devon and London in a field, and he said, ‘Diana wants the story told but with two conditions. One, it has to come out before Morton’s second book, and two, it has to be a love story.’ ” To oblige her, Pasternak says she crashed it out in fi
- To rapidly precipitate. These solutions, however, were unstable and immediately crashed out.
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To become uncontrollably angry or upset; to rage, snap.
Losing six games in a row was enough to make my friend start crashing out.
Similar: lose one's cool, fly off the handle, go apeshit, throw a fit, erupt, snap
- To break out of a prison.
- To act out recklessly and violently, often in a way that leads to self-destruction or serious consequences, typically in enraged reaction to something.
noun crash outs · crashout
- A reckless individual, often with nothing to lose; a person prone to crashing out. The combination of excessive social media, lack of sleep, and unhealthy caffeine use creates plenty of crash outs.
- An instance of being uncontrollably angry or upset. The McDonald's employee's crash out was recorded on multiple phones and went viral online.
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verb to snap
| 中文 | 崩潰 /崩溃 bēngkuì, 抓狂 zhuākuáng, 瘋掉 /疯掉 fēngdiào |
|---|---|
| Français | péter les plombs |
| Deutsch | ausrasten, durchdrehen, aufbrausen, an die Decke gehen, überschnappen |
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