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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

... Jill remorsefully. "I forgot! Stock-brokers are a painful subject, aren't they!" She turned to Nelly. "There's been an awful slump on the Stock Exchange today, and he got—what was the ...

— The Little Warrior - (U.K. Title: Jill the Reckless) • P. G. Wodehouse

... evidently, and expressed his disgust by occasionally stopping short and snuffing, meaning probably to intimate that he considered the whole thing a humbug, and that in his opinion we should all slump through together, and go to—nobody knows where. At last, when we were almost up the ascent, he did slump, and went up to his breast in the snow; whereat the guide pulled me out of the saddle with one hand, and pulled him out of ...

— Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands V2 • Harriet Beecher Stowe

... Sonora to the highest possible point. When we are satisfied that we have it up to the top notch, we'll dump every dollar's worth of stock in our possession, pocket our profits, and smile as we see Central Sonora slump and go ...

— Frank Merriwell's Pursuit - How to Win • Burt L. Standish

... without Towle admonishing his subordinates: "The old man's getting dead sore at the way his leg is being pulled, and if you fellows don't get those countrymen to play a more liberal game, they'll just drive the boss out of the business, and then there'll be a slump in prices that'll make them prefer to stay ...

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... 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 April 1994. Following a Paris Club debt rescheduling in 1995 and a robust harvest, the economy experienced a strong ...

— The 1996 CIA Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

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