crump
/kɹʌmp/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 2.75 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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?"
- "Crump, crack! A shell exploded near them and the whole aircraft yawned to port as if somebody had punched it through the sky."
- "Above this grey skyline slowly lifting clouds of dirty smoke rose into the morning air as the salvoes of Japanese shells exploded with a delayed crump."
- ""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."
- "“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.”"
- "a crump loaf"
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
Usage
- Intransitive verb
- British usage
- Obsolete
- American usage
- Countable
- Uncountable
Inflected Forms
crumps (plural)
crumps (present, singular)
crumping (participle, present)
crumped (participle, past)
crumped (past)
more crump (comparative)
most crump (superlative)
Derived Forms
Phrases
Crump Island