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crash pad

crash pad noun: any place used for temporary lodging, especially without payment or permission.

Noun

crash pad (plural crash pads)

  1. Any place used for temporary lodging, especially without payment or permission.
    1. A place of temporary lodging for airline flight crews.
      • The first officer did not have a crash pad in the EWR area. A captain who had flown with the first officer when she was based at ORF stated that she planned to stay overnight at hotels once she began commuting from SEA to EWR. According to a cargo air carrier captain who met the first officer in...2010 February 2, National Transportation Safety Board, “1.5.2 The First Officer”, in Aircraft Accident Report: Loss of Control on Approach, Colgan Air, Inc., Operating as Continental Connection...
  2. A protective foam pad placed on the ground, used as protection in case of falling from the wall.
  3. (slang) A room where one can recover after a bad trip.
    • They may then go to a hippie clinic crash pad to be "talked down."1969, American Journal of Psychiatry, volume 125, number 4, page 154
    • Ideally, he could be referred to a nearby "crash pad" where a peer "guide" that he should have taken with him on his trip to begin with could bring him back to sanity in a safe, but nonmedical environment.1973, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Special Studies Subcommittee, Evaluating the Federal effort to control drug abuse

Examples of crash pad in a sentence

  • The first officer did not have a crash pad in the EWR area.2010 February 2, National Transportation Safety Board, “1.5.2 The First Officer”, in Aircraft Accident Report: Loss of Control on Approach...
  • Because of the fear of a bad trip (a bummer), many LSD users will not take the drug except in controlled settings or in a crash pad.1979, Jay Strack, Drugs and drinking: what every teen and parent should know, →ISBN, page 49:

Synonyms of crash pad

Forms of crash pad

pluralcrash pads
alternative formcrashpad

Questions about crash pad

What does crash pad mean?
Crash pad means any place used for temporary lodging, especially without payment or permission.
How do you use crash pad in a sentence?
The first officer did not have a crash pad in the EWR area.
What part of speech is crash pad?
Crash pad is a noun.
What is the plural of crash pad?
The plural of crash pad is crash pads.

Words near crash pad in the dictionary

  1. crash landing
  2. crash landings
  3. crash lands
  4. crash out
  5. crash outs
  6. crash pad
  7. crash pads
  8. crash scissors
  9. crash space
  10. CRASH syndrome
  11. crash tackle

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