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The correct spelling is slumps.
How to pronounce slumps
noun
Say it like: Slu-mps
The correct spelling is slumps. A heavy or helpless collapse; a slouching or drooping posture; a period of poor activity or performance, especially an extended period. For example: "Exhausted, he slumped down onto the sofa."
Usage Examples
“Exhausted, he slumped down onto the sofa.”
“Real estate prices slumped during the recession.”
Meanings
noun
- 1.A heavy or helpless collapse; a slouching or drooping posture; a period of poor activity or performance, especially an extended period.
- 2.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.
- 3.A boggy place.
- 4.The noise made by anything falling into a hole, or into a soft, miry place.
- 5.The gross amount; the mass; the lump.
verb
- 1.To collapse heavily or helplessly.
- 2.To decline or fall off in activity or performance.
- 3.To slouch or droop.
- 4.To lump; to throw together messily.
- 5.To fall or sink suddenly through or in, when walking on a surface, as on thawing snow or ice, a bog, etc.
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