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noun

Slump n. The gross amount; the mass; the lump. (Scot.)

Slump n.

A boggy place. (Prov. Eng. & Scot.)

The noise made by anything falling into a hole, or into a soft, miry place. (Scot.)

A falling or declining, esp. suddenly and markedly; a falling off; as, a slump in trade, in stock market prices, in a batter's average, etc. (Colloq.)

verb

Slump v. t. To lump; to throw into a mess. "These different groups... are exclusively slumped together under that sense."

Slump v. i. (past & past part. slumped; pres. part. slumping)

To fall or sink suddenly through or in, when walking on a surface, as on thawing snow or ice, partly frozen ground, a bog, etc., not strong enough to bear the person. "The latter walk on a bottomless quag, into which unawares they may slump."

To slide or slip on a declivity, so that the motion is perceptible; said of masses of earth or rock.

To undergo a slump, or sudden decline or falling off; as, the stock slumped ten points. (Colloq.)

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"Slump" Quotes from Famous Books

... variations; the New Patriotism which has made the Tory Lion and the Liberal Lamb lie down together in peace, side by side, paying each other compliments; the good-girl tactics of the suffragettes; the surprising slump in murders and every sort of crime; possible raids of Zeppelins; and the amusingly persistent legend of Russians in France; the same things which were being discussed at that very moment, no doubt, in every household high and low, from one end of Great Britain ...

— Secret History Revealed By Lady Peggy O'Malley • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson

... cedar, In rings of moonlit green.... What bilge, you say, good reader? My very dear old bean, Think of the state of Prices, Think of the slump in Trade, Turn to the Paris Crisis, Ponder the cost of ices And ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, June 25, 1919 • Various

... and a stage for plays we will get up ourselves, and a movie machine. I'm to find out how to run one and teach them, and then he'll rent reels and open it twice a week. The big hole that will cave in on the north side of Multiopolis soon now will be caused by the slump when our neighbourhood withdraws its patronage and begins being entertained by Peter. And you'll see that it ...

— Michael O'Halloran • Gene Stratton-Porter

... toward macroeconomic adjustment, in 1992 the reform drive stalled as Algiers became embroiled in political turmoil. In September 1993, a new government was formed, and one priority was the resumption and acceleration of the structural adjustment process. Buffeted by the slump in world oil prices and burdened with a heavy foreign debt, Algiers concluded a one-year standby arrangement with the IMF in ...

— The 1995 CIA World Factbook • United States Central Intelligence Agency

... modern sanctity and inviolability attending and surrounding human life are at a discount. Even for children, the grim King of Terrors had become a bugaboo to laugh at; red wounds and ghastly sights are things of everyday experience; there is a slump in mortality. ...

— The Dop Doctor • Clotilde Inez Mary Graves

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