Probably ofNorth Germanic origin: compareDanishslumpe(“to stumble upon by chance”),Norwegianslumpe(“happen by chance”),Swedishslumpa(“to sell off”). Compare alsoGermanschlumpen(“to trail; draggle; be sloppy”), dialectalDutchslompen(“to walk clumsily”).
slump (third-person singular simple presentslumps,present participleslumping,simple past and past participleslumped)
- (intransitive) Tocollapseheavily orhelplessly.
Exhausted, heslumped down onto the sofa.
1907 August,Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter IX, inThe Younger Set, New York, N.Y.:D. Appleton & Company,→OCLC:“Heavens!” exclaimed Nina, “the blue-stocking and the fogy!—and yoursare pale blue, Eileen!—you’re about as self-conscious as Drina—slumping there with your hair tumblingà la Mérode! Oh, it's very picturesque, of course, but a straight spine and good grooming is better. […]”
- (intransitive) Todecline orfall off inactivity orperformance.
Real estate pricesslumped during the recession.
2011 October 29, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 3-5 Arsenal”, inBBC Sport:The Gunners captain demonstrated his importance to the team by taking his tally to an outstanding 28 goals in 27 Premier League games as Chelseaslumped again after their shock defeat at QPR last week.
2021 December 29, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Problems galore in 2021...”, inRAIL, number947, page 3:But in the week ending December 6, usageslumped from 72% of pre-pandemic numbers to just 56%, following revised advice that we should work from home again.
- (intransitive) Toslouch ordroop.
- (transitive) Tolump; to throw together messily.
- To fall or sink suddenly through or in, when walking on a surface, as on thawing snow or ice, a bog, etc.
a.1678 (date written),Isaac Barrow, “(please specify the chapter name or sermon number). The Danger and Mischief of Delaying Repentance”, inThe Works of Dr. Isaac Barrow. […], volume(please specify |volume=I to VII), London:A[braham] J[ohn] Valpy, […], published1830–1831,→OCLC:The latter walk on a bottomless quag, into which unawares they mayslump.
- (transitive, slang) To cause to collapse; to hit hard; to render unconscious; to kill.
to collapse heavily
- Bulgarian:рухвам (bg) impf(ruhvam),рухна pf(ruhna),свличам (bg) impf(svličam),свлека pf(svleka)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin:癱 /瘫(tān)
- Finnish:romahtaa (fi),rojahtaa,lysähtää (fi)
- French:s’affaler (fr),s’effondrer (fr)
- German:absinken (de),zusammensacken (de),zusammenbrechen (de)
- Hungarian:roskad (hu),leroskad (hu),rogy (hu),lerogy (hu)
- Italian:crollare (it)
- Maori:horopū(of the earth on a slope),hapuru
- Polish:upadać (pl)
- Portuguese:despencar (pt)
- Russian:оседа́ть (ru)(osedátʹ),рухнуть (ru) pf(ruxnutʹ)
- Serbo-Croatian:srozati se (sh)
- Spanish:desfallecer (es),desplomarse (es)
- Turkish:göçmek (tr)
- Ukrainian:звалитися(zvalytysja),(різко)падати(padaty)
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to decline, to reduce, to fall off in performance or activity
slump (pluralslumps)
- A heavy or helpless collapse; a slouching or droopingposture; a period of poor activity or performance, especially anextended period.
- (slang by extension) A period when a person goes without the expected amount ofsex ordating.
2004, Jonathan Tolins,The Last Sunday in June[1]:TOM. We haven't had sex with each other in five months.
MICHAEL. We're in aslump, I know that."
- 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.
- (geology) A form ofmass wasting in which acoherent mass of loosely consolidated materials or a rock layer moves a short distance down a slope.
- (geology, loosely) A crater or depression (an area where the groundslumps) which forms as a result of such wasting.(A large crater is colloquially called amegaslump.)
2022 September 8, Mark Brownlow, Elizabeth White,Frozen Planet II, Random House,→ISBN:The biggestslump in the world - a mega-slump - is in the Russian taiga. Known as the Batagaika crater, it is a kilometre-long gash in the ground, about 70 metres deep, and growing […]
- (UK, dialect) Aboggy place.
1880, William Hugh Patterson,A Glossary of Words in Use in the Counties of Antrim and Down:The road was allslumps of holes.
1911, Samuel Rutherford Crockett,Rose of the Wilderness, page165:It was neither seemly nor befitting that so great an occasion should have its solemnity defaced by leaping-poles or four hands crossed cradlewise to convey the bridal finery over “slump” or “quakkin'-qua[g]”!
- (Scotland) The noise made by anything falling into a hole, or into a soft,miry place.
- (Scotland) Thegrossamount; themass; thelump.
- Acobbler-likedessert cooked on astove.
- a blackberryslump
measure of the fluidity of fresh concrete
noise made by anything falling into a soft, miry place
From the verbslumpa.
slump m (definite singularslumpen,indefinite pluralslumpar,definite pluralslumpane)
- random event,chance,happenstance
Eg valde han ut påslump.- I picked itrandomly.
- a good amount, quite a bit
Eg vann ein godslump pengar i går.- I wonquite a bit of money yesterday.
slump
- imperative ofslumpa
slump m (pluralslumps)
- slump(decline)
Borrowed fromMiddle Low Germanslump.
slump c
- (uncountable)chance,randomness,happenstance
Det var nog mestslumpen som avgjorde vem som vann- It was probably mostly[the] chance that determined who won
Inget lämnas åtslumpen- Nothing is left to[the] chance (idiomatic)
Det är nog baraslumpen- It's probably justa coincidence / random chance
- (countable (but rarely plural)) acoincidence, (sometimes) anaccident, afluke, etc.
- Synonym:tillfällighet
– Jag tror inte att det är enslump att tre hus brann ner samma natt. – Nej, det är nog ingenslump.- – I don't think it's acoincidence that three houses burned down the same night. – No, it's probably not acoincidence.
en lyckligslump- a happyaccident
- a lastremainder of something, (often)residualstocks
säljaslumpen- sellresidual stocks
slumpen i ölflaskan- the last beer in the bottle
Thought of as a kind of entity in (sense 1), hence usually in the definite – "the randomness."
