Slump

Definitions

1. A heavy or helpless collapse; a slouching or drooping posture; a period of poor activity or performance, especially an extended period.
2. A period when a person goes without the expected amount of sex or dating.
   broadly, slang
3. 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.
4. A form of mass wasting in which a coherent mass of loosely consolidated materials or a rock layer moves a short distance down a slope.
5. A crater or depression (an area where the ground slumps) which forms as a result of such wasting. (A large crater is colloquially called a megaslump.)
   broadly
6. A boggy place.
   UK, dialectal
7. The noise made by anything falling into a hole, or into a soft, miry place.
   Scotland
8. The gross amount; the mass; the lump.
   Scotland
9. A cobbler-like dessert cooked on a stove.

Equivalents

Examples

“TOM. We haven't had sex with each other in five months. MICHAEL. We're in a slump, I know⟳ that."”

“The biggest slump in the world - a mega-slump - is in the Russian taiga. Known as the Batagaika crater, it is a kilometre-long gash in the ground, about 70 metres deep, and growing[…]”

“The road was all slumps of holes.”

“It was neither seemly nor befitting that so great an occasion should have⟳ its solemnity defaced by leaping-poles or four hands crossed cradlewise to convey the bridal finery over “slump” or “quakkin'-qua[g]”!”

“a blackberry slump”

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