slumps

Noun

slump (plural slumps)

1. A heavy or helpless collapse; a slouching or drooping posture; a period of poor activity or performance, especially an extended period.
   1. (broadly, slang) A period when a person goes without the expected amount of sex or dating.
      • TOM. We haven't had sex with each other in five months.
        MICHAEL. We're in a slump, I know that."2004, Jonathan Tolins, The Last Sunday in June
2. A period of poor performance.
   • If she doesn't pull out of her slump, her job may be in jeopardy.
3. A measure of the fluidity of freshly mixed concrete, based on how much the concrete formed in a standard slump cone sags when the cone is removed.
4. A form of mass wasting in which a coherent mass of loosely consolidated materials or a rock layer moves a short distance down a slope.
5. (broadly) A crater or depression (an area where the ground slumps) which forms as a result of such wasting. (A large crater is colloquially called a megaslump.)
   • The biggest slump in the world - a mega-slump - is in the Russian taiga. Known as the Batagaika crater, it is a kilometre-long gash in the ground, about 70 metres deep, and growing[…]2022 September 8, Mark Brownlow, Elizabeth White, Frozen Planet II, Random House, →ISBN

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