crash out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: crashes out
form: crashing out
form: crashed out
form: crashed out
Etymology: From crash + out. References online to the slang sense go as far back as a Twitter post from 2013, attributed to YoungBoy Never Broke Again, a rapper from Baton Rouge, La. Popularized by a December 2023 viral TikTok video.
Senses: examples: text: He crashed out after a long day of work.
text: We walked by Eric's room across the hall and I thought maybe he was still up, or maybe crashed out?
ref: 2006, G. S. Morrison, A Rock and Roll Fantasy, page 85:
synonyms: crash
glosses: To fall asleep from exhaustion.
examples: text: Harry didn't know why but the computer crashed out all of a sudden.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To terminate with an unhandled error; to crash.
examples: text: He crashed out at the second round of the tournament.
text: After 23 miles, John crashed out of his third attempt at the elusive 40-mile world track record, unable to do any more than clutch his knotted stomach as Lynn Hughes, the vibrant son of a Welsh miner, swept in with a new British best of 4 hours.
ref: 2011, Bill Jones, The Ghost Runner: The Tragedy of the Man They Couldn't Stop:
text: They joined Sunderland and Middlesbrough in crashing out of the competition at the third-round stage this season.
ref: 2011 January 8, Paul Fletcher, “Stevenage 3 - 1 Newcastle”, in BBC:
glosses: To be eliminated from a competition.
examples: text: 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 five weeks.
ref: 2022 April 5, Tina Brown, “How Princess Diana’s Dance With the Media Impacted William and Harry”, in Vanity Fair:
glosses: To produce or create rapidly; to bang out.
examples: text: These solutions, however, were unstable and immediately crashed out.
ref: 2006, Adam M. Schwartzberg, Synthesis, Optical Properties, and Sensing with Gold Nanoparticles, Aggregates, and Hollow Gold Nanospheres, page 135:
text: One of the biggest challenges of in vitro assays is dealing with compounds that have low aqueous solubility that crash out of solution when they are added to the assay buffer or culture medium.
ref: 2013, Jie Jack Li, E. J. Corey, Drug Discovery: Practices, Processes, and Perspectives:
text: A supersaturated solution is unstable; solute molecules may crash out of solution given the slightest perturbation.
ref: 2015, John T. Moore, Chris Hren, Peter J. Mikulecky, U Can: Chemistry I For Dummies, page 267:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To rapidly precipitate.
examples: text: Losing six games in a row was enough to make my friend start crashing out.
text: But instead of crashing out over, say, Haitian immigrants allegedly eating cats and dogs in Ohio, Piker’s guests will argue over things like “What’s the best cheese?” or “Is Five Guys a fast-food restaurant?”
ref: 2024 September 18, Levi Winslow, “Streamer Hasan Piker Is Twitch’s Foremost Debate Lord”, in Complex:
text: “It’s kind of this forewarning of like, ‘Hey you’re annoying me, I’m going to crash out,’” he said, “or like, ‘This project I’m working on is going to make me crash out.’”
ref: 2025 June 17, Nicole Stock, “Why Is Everybody ‘Crashing Out’?”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 18 Jun 2025:
glosses: To become uncontrollably angry or upset; to rage, snap.
glosses: To break out of a prison.