crash pad
Any place used for temporary lodging, especially without payment or permission.
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Any place used for temporary lodging, especially without payment or permission.
They may then go to a hippie clinic crash pad to be "talked down."
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(slang) A room where one can recover after a bad trip.
Because of the fear of a bad trip (a bummer), many LSD users will not take the drug except in controlled settings or in a crash pad.
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— Bluesky· May 2026
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(climbing) A protective foam pad placed on the ground, used as protection in case of falling from the wall.
Ideally, he could be referred to a nearby "crash pad" where a peer "guide" that he should have taken with him on his trip to begin with could bring him back to sanity in a safe, but nonmedical environment.
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An obsolete piece of British thieves and vagabond cant for a lodging house that catered to tramps and vagabonds — essentially a dosshouse. Padding referred to the act of walking the roads (padding the hoof), and ken was cant for a house. Documented in 18th and 19th century slang dictionaries.
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(slang, intransitive) To appear uninvited at a party or other event.
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(UK, slang, obsolete) To beg at the roadside.