Definition of "slump"

slump

/slʌmp/

verb
third-person singular simple present slumps, present participle slumping, simple past and past participle slumped
1. (intransitive) To collapse heavily or helplessly.
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  “Heavens!” exclaimed Nina, “the blue-stocking and the fogy!—and yours are pale blue, Eileen!—you’re about as self-conscious as Drina—slumping there with your hair tumbling à la Mérode! Oh, it's very picturesque, of course, but a straight spine and good grooming is better. […]”
  1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter IX, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company
2. (intransitive) To decline or fall off in activity or performance.
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  The Gunners captain demonstrated his importance to the team by taking his tally to an outstanding 28 goals in 27 Premier League games as Chelsea slumped again after their shock defeat at QPR last week.
  2011 October 29, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 3-5 Arsenal”, in BBC Sport
  But in the week ending December 6, usage slumped from 72% of pre-pandemic numbers to just 56%, following revised advice that we should work from home again.
  2021 December 29, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Problems galore in 2021...”, in RAIL, number 947, page 3
3. (intransitive) To slouch or droop.
4. (transitive) To lump; to throw together messily.
  Quotations
  These different groups […] are exclusively slumped together under that sense.
  1859–1860, William Hamilton, edited by H[enry] L[ongueville] Mansel and John Veitch, Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons
5. To fall or sink suddenly through or in, when walking on a surface, as on thawing snow or ice, a bog, etc.
  Quotations
  The latter walk on a bottomless quag, into which unawares they may slump.
  a. 1678 (date written), Isaac Barrow, “(please specify the chapter name or sermon number). The Danger and Mischief of Delaying Repentance”, in The Works of Dr. Isaac Barrow. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: A[braham] J[ohn] Valpy, […], published 1830–1831
6. (transitive, slang) To cause to collapse; to hit hard; to render unconscious; to kill.
noun
plural slumps
1. A heavy or helpless collapse; a slouching or drooping posture; a period of poor activity or performance, especially an extended period.
  1. (slang by extension) A period when a person goes without the expected amount of sex or dating.
    Quotations
    TOM. We haven't had sex with each other in five months.MICHAEL. We're in a slump, I know that."
    2004, Jonathan Tolins, The Last Sunday in June‎
2. 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.
3. (UK, dialect) A boggy place.
4. (Scotland) The noise made by anything falling into a hole, or into a soft, miry place.
5. (Scotland) The gross amount; the mass; the lump.
6. A cobbler-like dessert cooked on a stove.

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