crash pad

noun

1
: protective padding (as on the inside of an automobile or a tank)
2
: a place to stay temporarily

Examples of crash pad in a Sentence

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The client, a Pennsylvania resident, was looking for a pied-à-terre in Manhattan to serve as both a crash pad for business trips and an experiment in city living. Linne Halpern, Architectural Digest, 9 Aug. 2024 But even as the number of luxury crash pads in airports grows, the number of visitors welcomed there is shrinking—and that’s by design. Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 27 June 2024 The hunt for authenticity had its absurd side: according to Andre, when the members of his band tidied up their crash pad, the MTV crew spilled some Cheerios back on the floor, to maintain proper grittiness. Emily Nussbaum, The New Yorker, 15 June 2024 While posing for photographs, the stunt artists were dramatically yanked backwards through the movie’s poster onto a crash pad, leaving only Gosling in the spotlight. EW.com, 1 May 2024 See all Example Sentences for crash pad 

Word History

First Known Use

1939, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of crash pad was in 1939

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“Crash pad.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/crash%20pad. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.

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