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- noun In the
aviation industry, used for aplace oftemporary lodging forairline flight crews . - noun Any place used for temporary lodging.
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Examples
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The director organised two-day hippy schools for his extras, in which they were shown news clips from 1969 and instructed in hippy speak until such antiquated terms as 'crashpad', 'dig' and 'groovy' came naturally.
Latest articles - Radio Prague Radio Prague 2009
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CouchSurfing brings together couch owners with cash-strapped travelers looking for a crashpad.
Claire Gordon: The Gift of Money Claire Gordon 2011
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The roster filled up fast, but as with the Emerging Man space, there's every reason to believe that the Dachb0den loft will become a social nexus for this year's ETCON, and there's also every reason to believe that there will be some dropping out and shifting around, so don't give up hope if you're looking for an ETCON crashpad.
Boing Boing: February 1, 2004 - February 7, 2004 Archives 2004
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Her mother took them all to lunch at a decent Italian restaurant, but declined to attend the reception, at the Chillum Heights crashpad where Bev and Lee had once lived in sin, perhaps rightly intuiting that there would be a lot more marijuana than champagne involved.
1968 Haldeman, Joe & Fields, Trinity 1984
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She called the guy who owned the old crashpad and he said yeah, Spider'd come looking for her the day after they left.
1968 Haldeman, Joe & Fields, Trinity 1984
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Their next date, their first actual "date," was take-out pizza and cheap wine at the house Lee was using as a crashpad.
1968 Haldeman, Joe & Fields, Trinity 1984
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Allie, visiting her in her World's End crashpad, refused a proffered sugar-lump, mumbled something about brain damage, feeling inadequate, as usual in Elena's company.
The Satanic Verses Rushdie, Salman 1967
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(Tufankjian rented a house there with a slew of other photographers, a crashpad that ended up housing dozens of people at the height of the caucus coverage there.)
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(Tufankjian rented a house there with a slew of other photographers, a crashpad that ended up housing dozens of people at the height of the caucus coverage there.)
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(Tufankjian rented a house there with a slew of other photographers, a crashpad that ended up housing dozens of people at the height of the caucus coverage there.)
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