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crash pads

crash pads is the plural of crash pad.

Meaning of crash pad

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

Questions about crash pads

What is crash pads the plural of?
Crash pads is the plural of crash pad.

Words near crash pads in the dictionary

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

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