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midcrash

midcrash noun: a point in time during a crash.

Noun

midcrash (uncountable)

  1. A point in time during a crash.
    • Made in 2001, the eerily prophetic “Middlemen” shows the paper-strewn floor of a stock exchange apparently in midcrash.2009 May 22, Ken Johnson, “Video Spectacles, Imagined or, in One Case, Real”, in New York Times
    • They're present in the spongy feeling when you walk in your high-tech running shoes, the building envelope that insulates your home or office, the designed collapse of your car's bumper in midcrash.2007, Metropolis, volume 26, numbers 9-10

Origin of midcrash

From mid- + crash.

Questions about midcrash

What does midcrash mean?
Midcrash means a point in time during a crash.
What part of speech is midcrash?
Midcrash is a noun.

Words near midcrash in the dictionary

  1. midcostal
  2. midcourse
  3. midcourt
  4. midcourter
  5. midcourters
  6. midcrash
  7. midcrossing
  8. midcrossings
  9. midcrust
  10. midcrustal
  11. midcry

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