crash pad
noun
Slang.
a place to sleep or live temporarily and at no cost.
padding inside cars, tanks, or the like, for protecting passengers in the event of an accident, sudden stop, etc.
Origin of crash pad
First recorded in 1935–40
Words nearby crash pad
British Dictionary definitions for crash pad
crash pad
noun
slang
a place to sleep or live temporarily
Idioms and Phrases with crash pad
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]