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View synonyms for crash pad
crash pad
noun
- Slang. a place to sleep or live temporarily and at no cost.
- padding inside cars, tanks, or the like, for protecting passengers in the event of an accident, sudden stop, etc.
crash pad
noun
- slang.a place to sleep or live temporarily
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Word History and Origins
Origin of crash pad1
First recorded in 1935–40
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Idioms and Phrases
A free, temporary lodging place, as in The company maintains several crash pads for employees from out-of-town divisions . This expression originally referred to a place affording runaways, drug addicts, and the like somewhere to crash in the sense of “sleep.” In time it also was used more broadly, as in the example. [ Slang ; 1960s]Discover More
Example Sentences
Stan Wilson settled himself against his crash pad and got his chute squared under him.
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