Meaning

8 senses

  1. (informal)To fall asleep from exhaustion.

    He crashed out after a long day of work.

  2. (informal)To terminate with an unhandled error; to crash.

    Harry didn't know why but the computer crashed out all of a sudden.

  3. (informal)To be eliminated from a competition.

    He crashed out at the second round of the tournament.

  4. (transitive)To produce or create rapidly; to bang out.

  5. To rapidly precipitate.

  6. (slang)To become uncontrollably angry or upset; to rage, snap.

    Losing six games in a row was enough to make my friend start crashing out.

    ausrasten, durchdrehen, aufbrausen

  7. (US, slang)To break out of a prison.

  8. (Internet)To act out recklessly and violently, often in a way that leads to self-destruction or serious consequences, typically in enraged reaction to something.

Examples

3 sentences

  1. As soon as he heard the crash, he rushed out of the house.

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  2. I'm going to crash out soon.

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  3. Tom was too drunk to drive home, so he crashed out on Mary's couch.

    ruТом был слишком пьян, чтобы доехать до дома, так что он переночевал на диванчике у Мэри. — Ooneykcall

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Translations

2 languages
Deutsch
By meaning 1
to snap:

Origin

From crash + out. References online to the slang sense go as far back as a Twitter post fr

From crash + out. References online to the slang sense go as far back as a Twitter post from 2013, attributed to YoungBoy Never Broke Again, a rapper from Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Popularized by a December 2023 viral TikTok video. The earliest clear printed use turns up in a 1940 crime novel called High Sierra by W. R. Burnett. A character sits thinking about escape and says:

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Forms

crashes out, crashing out, crashed out, crashed out
Base formcrash out · to crash out
3rd person singularcrashes out
Present participlecrashing out
Past simplecrashed out
Past participlecrashed out

irregular

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theycrash out
he, she, itcrashes out

Past simpleLesson

all personscrashed out

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave crashed out
he, she, ithas crashed out

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill crash out

Phrasal verbs

2 phrasal verbs

Synonyms

7 synonyms
crashB1eruptB2snapB2lose one's coolfly off the handlego apeshitthrow a fit

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
crappycrashB1crasscratecraterB2
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