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crump
/kɹʌmp/
name 4verb 2adj 2noun 1
Collocations
4ADJ.
delayed, last, used
VERB + CRUMP
backs, crooked, sing
CRUMP + NOUN
loaf, shell, shoulders
PREP.
with
Definitions
noun
1
The sound of a muffled explosion.
And there was another bit [of a hymn]: ‘To an inheritance incorruptible. … Through faith unto salvation, Ready to be revealèd at the last trump.’ For ‘trump’ we always used to sing ‘crump.’ ‘The last crump’ was the end of the war and would we ever hear it burst safely behind us?
Crump, crack! A shell exploded near them and the whole aircraft yawned to port as if somebody had punched it through the sky.
verb
1
To produce such a sound.
“Mortars crumped, and from the high ground to the east and south came the shriek of 88-millimeter shells, green fireballs that whizzed through the dunes at half a mile a second, trailing golden plumes of dust.”
adj
1
Hard or crusty; dry baked
a crump loaf
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And there was another bit [of a hymn]: ‘To an inheritance incorruptible. … Through faith unto salvation, Ready to be revealèd at the last trump.’ For ‘trump’ we always used to sing ‘crump.’ ‘The last
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Crump, crack! A shell exploded near them and the whole aircraft yawned to port as if somebody had punched it through the sky.
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Above this grey skyline slowly lifting clouds of dirty smoke rose into the morning air as the salvoes of Japanese shells exploded with a delayed crump.
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“Mortars crumped, and from the high ground to the east and south came the shriek of 88-millimeter shells, green fireballs that whizzed through the dunes at half a mile a second, trailing golden plumes
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a crump loaf
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Crooked backs and crump shoulders.
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