crashing out

Verb

crash out (third-person singular simple present crashes out, present participle crashing out, simple past and past participle crashed out)

1. (informal) To fall asleep from exhaustion.
   • He crashed out after a long day of work.

   Synonyms:

   crash

2. (informal) To terminate with an unhandled error; to crash.
   • Harry didn't know why but the computer crashed out all of a sudden.
3. (informal) To be eliminated from a competition.
   • He crashed out at the second round of the tournament.
4. (transitive) To produce or create rapidly; to bang out.
   • Pasternak told me that she and Hewitt “met halfway between Devon and London in a field, and he said, ‘Diana wants the story told but with two conditions. One, it has to come out before Morton’s second book, and two, it has to be a love story.’ ” To oblige her, Pasternak says she crashed it out in...2022 April 5, Tina Brown, “How Princess Diana’s Dance With the Media Impacted William and Harry”, in Vanity Fair, archived from the original on 02 Dec 2022
5. To rapidly precipitate.
   • These solutions, however, were unstable and immediately crashed out.2006, Adam M. Schwartzberg, Synthesis, Optical Properties, and Sensing with Gold Nanoparticles, Aggregates, and Hollow Gold Nanospheres, page 135
6. (slang) To become uncontrollably angry or upset; to rage, snap.
   • Losing six games in a row was enough to make my friend start crashing out.

   Synonyms:

   lose one's cool, fly off the handle, go apeshit, throw a fit, erupt, snap

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