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crump¹

  • /kɹʌmp/

Sounds like Crump, krump · Rhymes with -ʌmp

Where it comes from

Onomatopoeic.

noun crumps

  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?

verb crumps · crumping · crumped

  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.”

crump²

  • /kɹʌmp/

Sounds like Crump, krump · Rhymes with -ʌmp

Where it comes from

See crumb.

adjective more crump · most crump

  1. Scotland, UK, dialectal Hard or crusty; dry baked a crump loaf

crump³

  • /kɹʌmp/

Sounds like Crump, krump · Rhymes with -ʌmp

Where it comes from

From Middle English crump, cromp, croume, from Old English crump, crumb (“stooping, bent, crooked”), from Proto-West Germanic *krump, from Proto-Germanic *krumpaz, *krumbaz (“bent”).

Compare Dutch krom (“bent”), German krumm (“crooked”), Danish krum. Related to cramp.

adjective more crump · most crump

  1. obsolete Crooked; bent. Crooked backs and crump shoulders.

verb crumps · crumping · crumped

  1. 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.[”]

    Similar: circle the drain

Crump⁴

Where it comes from

* As an English surname, from the adjective crump (“crooked”). Compare Croom.

* As a German and Dutch surname, Americanized from Krump (see Krumm and Ruhm) and Kramp.

proper noun Crumps

  1. countable, uncountable A surname from Middle English. In a news conference Monday afternoon, civil rights attorney Ben Crump, who represents Massey’s family, connected her death to other cases of police violence against Black people across the US. […] Crump referenced what Grayson said – “I’ll f**king shoot you in the f**king face” – before Massey was
  2. countable, uncountable An unincorporated community in Garfield Township, Bay County, Michigan, United States.
  3. countable, uncountable An unincorporated community in Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, United States.
  4. countable, uncountable A city in Hardin County, Tennessee, United States.

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"crump." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/crump. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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Chicago

"crump." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/crump.

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@misc{crump_2026,
  title = {crump},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/crump},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}