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| something of cheap or inferior quality; junk |
| a highly uncomfortable or embarrassing situation |
| crash pad | |
| —n | |
| slang a place to sleep or live temporarily | |
crash pad
A free, temporary lodging place, as in The company maintains several crash pads for employees from out-of-town divisions. This expression originally referred to a place affording runaways, drug addicts, and the like somewhere to crash in the sense of "sleep." In time it also was used more broadly, as in the example. [Slang; 1960s]