Meaning

2 senses
  1. (Internet)A reckless individual, often with nothing to lose; a person prone to crashing out.

  2. (Internet)An instance of being uncontrollably angry or upset.

Examples

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

  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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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

plural: crash outs

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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