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crash pad
noun
- Slang. a place to sleep or live temporarily and at no cost.
- padding inside cars, tanks, or the like, for protecting passengers in the event of an accident, sudden stop, etc.
crash pad
noun
- slang.a place to sleep or live temporarily
Word History and Origins
Origin of crash pad1
Idioms and Phrases
A free, temporary lodging place, as in The company maintains several crash pads for employees from out-of-town divisions . This expression originally referred to a place affording runaways, drug addicts, and the like somewhere to crash in the sense of “sleep.” In time it also was used more broadly, as in the example. [ Slang ; 1960s]Example Sentences
When she’s hiking to a crag, she brings along the 32 oz Lightweight Wide Mouth Trail Series because it doesn’t weigh her down when she’s carrying her crash pad and other gear.
It’s built with a thick 1,000-denier Cordura nylon that can stand up to countless shoves between crash pads and is available in more than three dozen colors.
Stan Wilson settled himself against his crash pad and got his chute squared under him.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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