Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗A heavy or helpless collapse; a slouching or drooping posture; a period of poor activity or performance, especially an extended period. · A period when a person goes without the expected amount of sex or dating. · A period of poor performance. · 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.
To collapse heavily or helplessly. · To decline or fall off in activity or performance. · To slouch or droop. · To lump; to throw together messily.
Probably of North Germanic origin: compare Danish slumpe (“to stumble upon by chance”), Norwegian slumpe (“happen by chance”), Norwegian slumpa (“happen by chance”), Swedish slumpa (“randomize; to sell off”), Swedish slump (“chance, randomness, happenstance”). Compare also German schlumpen (“to trail; draggle; be sloppy”), dialectal Dutch slompen (“to walk clumsily”).
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This page abbreviates 8 auxiliary source items. The etymology narrative is not shortened. Omission counts are available in the audit fields below; consult the original for complete auxiliary material.
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