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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
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of crash pad1
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]Example Sentences
“It was not uncommon for people to use my house as a crash pad, a party house. I know it’s horrible, but at least on a weekly basis friends were passing out at my house.”
Often, Rollinson would have to remind him to use a crash pad if he intended to try any diving, one-handed grabs on the practice field.
In a mostly quiet neighborhood of older homes and small apartment buildings, some residents have drawn their own no-go zones around what might sound like a crash pad for traveling backpackers: hostels.
Mauri moved into a cheap crash pad in Santa Monica, California, called Muscle House by the Sea.
She shared an apartment with another code breaker in a rowhouse at 1633 Q St. NW, which became a crash pad of sorts for members of the military and others without a place to sleep.
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