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Meaning
Verb
●
To
collapse
heavily
or helplessly.
●
To
decline
or
fall off
in
activity
or performance.
●
To
slouch
or droop.
●
To
lump
; to
throw together
messily.
●
To
fall
or
sink
suddenly
through or in, when
walking
on a
surface
, as on
thawing
snow
or
ice
, a
bog
, etc.
●
To cause to
collapse
; to
hit hard
; to
render
unsconscious; to kill.
Noun
●
A
heavy
or
helpless
collapse
; a
slouching
or
drooping
posture
; a
period
of
poor
activity
or performance, especially an
extended
period
.
A
period
when a person
goes
without the
expected
amount of
sex
or dating.
●
A
measure
of the
fluidity
of
freshly
mixed
concrete
, based on
how much
the
concrete
formed
in a
standard
slump
cone
sags
when the
cone
is removed.
●
In British English:
A
boggy
place.
●
In Scottish English:
The
noise
made by anything
falling into
a
hole
, or into a
soft
,
miry
place.
●
In Scottish English:
The
gross
amount; the
mass
; the lump.
●
A cobbler-like
dessert
cooked
on a stove.
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