crump
Meaning of crump
noun
- a loud thudding sound, especially one made by an exploding bomb or shell.
the crump of shells could be heard hours later
- make a loud, thudding sound.
we heard the cannon crumping
mid 17th century: imitative. The original sense (as a verb) was ‘munch, crunch’, later ‘hit hard’ (used initially as a term in the game of cricket), and then the military sense ‘bombard’ (First World War).
Information about crump
- The plural form of crump is: crumps.
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Hyphenation of crump
crump
- It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
- crump is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
crump synonyms
Meaning thud:
Words that rhyme with crump
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