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noun

Slump n. The gross amount; the mass; the lump. (Scot.)

Slump n.

A boggy place. (Prov. Eng. & Scot.)

The noise made by anything falling into a hole, or into a soft, miry place. (Scot.)

A falling or declining, esp. suddenly and markedly; a falling off; as, a slump in trade, in stock market prices, in a batter's average, etc. (Colloq.)

verb

Slump v. t. To lump; to throw into a mess. "These different groups... are exclusively slumped together under that sense."

Slump v. i. (past & past part. slumped; pres. part. slumping)

To fall or sink suddenly through or in, when walking on a surface, as on thawing snow or ice, partly frozen ground, a bog, etc., not strong enough to bear the person. "The latter walk on a bottomless quag, into which unawares they may slump."

To slide or slip on a declivity, so that the motion is perceptible; said of masses of earth or rock.

To undergo a slump, or sudden decline or falling off; as, the stock slumped ten points. (Colloq.)

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"Slump" Quotes from Famous Books

... Hickory, watchin' Killam crawl out and slip around a corner. But say, Mr. Ellins can make that "Huh!" of his mean a lot. He knows when he's been buffaloed, take it from me. My guess is that Rupert's stock is in for a bad slump. I'd quote him about ...

— Wilt Thou Torchy • Sewell Ford

... you do," he continued, "buy every share of Omega that is offered. There'll be a big block of it thrown on the market, and more in the afternoon. Buy it, whatever the price. There's likely to be a big slump. Don't bid for it—don't keep up the price, ...

— Blindfolded • Earle Ashley Walcott

... said Jean. "Of course, there are heaps of things one could slump money away on, hospitals and institutions and missions, but these are all so impersonal. I wonder, would it be pushing and furritsome, do you think, if I tried to help ministers a little?—ministers, I mean, with wives and families and small incomes shut away in country places and in the poor parts ...

— Penny Plain • Anna Buchan (writing as O. Douglas)

... which his decolletee dame does not notice—till afterwards—a little curious as to the cost of the whole affair, and after a while, in a state of semi-somnolence, thinking a good deal of the events of the day and the Alpine attitude of the Bank rate or the slump in Consols. ...

— Our Stage and Its Critics • "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette"

... upward into a half loop and rolled into position to fire at the leading attacker. The German was slow and Larkin poured a stream of lead into the cockpit. He saw the pilot stiffen, as one who has received a sudden shock or surprise, and then slump down. The plane thundered on for a moment, then nosed down, ...

— Aces Up • Covington Clarke

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