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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Slang Miserable or wretched: a crummy situation in the family.
  2. adj. Slang Shabby or cheap: a crummy little rowboat.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Full of crumbs.
  2. Soft, as the crumb of bread is; not crusty: as, a crummy loaf.
  3. Plump; buxom: as, a crummy lass.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. informal bad; poor
  2. adj. dated Full of crumb or crumbs; crumby.
  3. adj. dated Soft, like the crumb of bread; not crusty.
  4. n. informal Small van, bus, or railway car used to transport loggers or other resource workers to and from the worksite. A common term when referring to a vehicle with a compartment separate from the cab, housing the silvicultural, logging or mining crew during transport.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Full of crumb or crumbs.
  2. adj. Soft, as the crumb of bread is; not crusty.
  3. adj. informal of very poor quality.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. of very poor quality; flimsy.

Etymologies

  1. Probably from crumb. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “It's those little things that give me joy about this game and they really do weigh up to the lack of sleep in crummy beds in rooms crowded by people with sore feet and backs and heads because they drank too much and/or had too little sleep and they nag at each other about little things like "you stole my belongings!",”

    Charm

  • “If you thought Sean Connery kicked ass in crummy low-res, just wait til you see him whip a chair in 1080p.”

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  • “Being a PD film, “Johnny the Giant Killer” has only been seen in crummy bootlegged dupes (most seem to come from well-worn 16mm prints).”

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  • “Trio Network is featuring FLOPS this month, but they don't quite specify if they mean financial or artistic failures, or just plain crummy movies that nobody liked.”

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  • “Woodward was known as a crummy writer so I liked Bernstein.”

    Peter Mehlman: Cub Reporter

  • “StSanders' Hilarious YouTube Parodies 'Shred' Guitar Gods  :  Music   Hilarious YouTube Parodies 'Shred' Guitar Gods By Monty Phan 10.17.07 Santeri Ojala, aka StSanders, expertly overdubs crummy solos onto concert footage of guitar heroes in full shred mode.”

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  • “The original PCs in the early 80's were pretty crummy, that is, until 1984 when Apple introduced the mouse and the Mac … Back then Alan Kay, inventor of the Dynabook tablet, said”

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  • “By the usual standards for evaluating government interventions, which is to say crummy standards, TARP has done okay.”

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  • “As for "crummy" panel slots: at SF, Barry Eisler moderated the Sunday morning panel and served mimosas and bagels.”

    Conventional Behaviour

  • “Getting any panel is a bonus, so I don't know about calling the early slots "crummy".”

    Conventional Behaviour

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synonyms (7)

Words with the same meaning

  1. bum
  1. cheap
  1. cheesy
  1. chintzy
  1. punk
  1. sleazy
  1. tinny

equivalents (1)

Other words for ‘crummy’

  1. inferior

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Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. fleabag
  2. fire/
  3. sit-down
  4. busybody
  1. swank
  2. meat-filled
  3. swanky
  4. fast-food
  1. crappy
  2. closed-down
  3. ¥½±¨¦â¦
  4. riverboat
  1. ritzy
  2. fifth-grade
  3. shitty
  4. four-star
  1. out-of-the-way
  2. sleazy
  3. four-man
  4. meteoroid
  1. truck-stop

rhymes (9)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. Mummy
  1. chummy
  1. dummy
  1. gummi
  1. gummy
  1. mummy
  1. rummy
  1. tummy
  1. yummy

reverse dictionary (2)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. crumby
  1. crummy

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  • bilby whichbe has Contronympho although the words are not necessarily all of the 180-degree variety. Jun 22, 2009

  • madmouth I wonder if there are enough words to comprise a 180 Meaning Turn list... Jun 22, 2009

  • arby Whereas Roget has the new meaning:
    crummy also crumby
    ADJECTIVE: Slang. Of decidedly inferior quality: base, cheap, lousy, miserable, paltry, poor, rotten, shoddy, sleazy, trashy. Informal: cheesy. Slang: schlocky. See GOOD. Sep 27, 2007

  • arby Interesting, the old meaning was the opposite, see Bartleby:

    E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.

    That’s crummy, that’s jolly good. She’s a crummy woman, a fine handsome woman. Crummy means fat or fleshy. The crummy part of bread is the fleshy or main part. The opposite of “crusty�? = ill-tempered. Sep 27, 2007

  • arby I associate this word with The Catcher in the Rye - Holden used it a lot and I think it was my first exposure to it. Aug 12, 2007

  • jennarenn In the world of dive restaurants, a crummy atmosphere often equals awesome food. Jul 25, 2007

  • slumry Something that produces crumbs or something that is covered with crumbs; something that is of poor quality; a bus used to transfer workers to a job site. Wish I knew how the last meaning evolved (I could speculate, but would like to find some actual evidence. ;-) Jul 25, 2007

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