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View synonyms for crash pad

crash pad

noun

  1. Slang. a place to sleep or live temporarily and at no cost.
  2. padding inside cars, tanks, or the like, for protecting passengers in the event of an accident, sudden stop, etc.


crash pad

noun

  1. slang.
    a place to sleep or live temporarily
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of crash pad1

First recorded in 1935–40
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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]
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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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