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English

Noun

krump (uncountable)

1. Krumping: an energetic style of hip-hop dance

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *krumbaz.

Adjective

krump

1. crooked

Derived terms

• krump?

Descendants

• German: krumm

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??mp/
• Homophones: Crump, krump
• Rhymes: -?mp

Etymology 1

Onomatopoeic.

Noun

crump (plural crumps)

1. The sound of a muffled explosion.
   • 2008, Paul Wood, BBC News. Taking cover on Sderot front line

     "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

crump (third-person singular simple present crumps, present participle crumping, simple past and past participle crumped)

1. (intransitive) To produce such a sound.

Etymology 2

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Verb

crump (third-person singular simple present crumps, present participle crumping, simple past and past participle crumped)

1. (intransitive, US, medical slang) For one's health to decline rapidly (but not as rapidly as crash).

Synonyms

• circle the drain

Etymology 3

See crumb.

Adjective

crump (comparative more crump, superlative most crump)

1. (Britain, Scotland, dialect) Hard or crusty; dry baked

   a crump loaf

Etymology 4

From Middle English crump, cromp, croume, from Old English crump, crumb (“stooping, bent, crooked”), from Proto-Germanic *krumpaz, *krumbaz (“bent”). Compare Dutch krom (“bent”), German krumm (“crooked”), Danish krum. Related to cramp.

Adjective

crump (comparative more crump, superlative most crump)

1. (obsolete) Crooked; bent.