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Definition of Crumps
1. crump [v] - See also: crump
Lexicographical Neighbors of Crumps
Literary usage of Crumps
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Select Novels by John Hawkesworth, Clara Reeve, Tobias George Smollett, Thomas-Simon Gueullette (1816)
"... adventures of the three crumps of Damascus—" I swear by Aly *," said Schems-Eddin
to him, " that if I have been sensible of any pleasure since the loss ..."
2. By Bothwell Banks: Some Chapters on the History, Archaeology and Literary by George Henderson, J Jeffrey Waddell (1904)
"Why " crumps " we have not learned. We only know he was a weaver, ... This was
so as crumps knew to his cost, for " crumps, crumps, crumps," was the refrain ..."
3. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant by Ulysses S. Grant (1998)
"On the way up the river I directed the dispatch-boat to run in close to crumps
landing, so that I could communicate with General Lew. Wallace. ..."
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