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crashpad

crashpad is the alternative form 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

Forms of crashpad

pluralcrashpads

Questions about crashpad

What is crashpad the alternative form of?
Crashpad is the alternative form of crash pad.

Words near crashpad in the dictionary

  1. crashmate
  2. crashmates
  3. crashmats
  4. crashout
  5. crashouts
  6. crashpad
  7. crashpads
  8. crashproof
  9. crasht
  10. crashworthiness
  11. crashworthy

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