Slump /(?)/

Slump

n.
  1. The gross amount; the mass; the lump. [Scot.]

Slump

v. t.
  1. To lump; to throw into a mess.
    These different groups . . . are exclusively slumped together under that sense.

Slump

v. i.

imp. & p. p. Slumped; p. pr. & vb. n. Slumping

  1. To fall or sink suddenly through or in, when walking on a surface, as on thawing snow or ice, partly frozen ground, a bog, etc., not strong enough to bear the person.
    The latter walk on a bottomless quag, into which unawares they may slump.
  2. To slide or slip on a declivity, so that the motion is perceptible; -- said of masses of earth or rock.
  3. To undergo a slump, or sudden decline or falling off; as, the stock slumped ten points. [Colloq.]

Slump

n.
  1. A boggy place. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
  2. The noise made by anything falling into a hole, or into a soft, miry place. [Scot.]
  3. A falling or declining, esp. suddenly and markedly; a falling off; as, a slump in trade, in stock market prices, in a batter's average, etc. [Colloq.]