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How to pronounce “slump”

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Pronunciation guide for slump

Learning goal: Practice the English pronunciation of slump with real speech in context.
Available examples: 8 YouTube examples
Real speech example: Austerity: The History of a Dangerous IdeaYou get caught in a slump.
Definition summary: (intransitive) To collapse heavily or helplessly.

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Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea

You get caught in a slump.

[Verb]
(intransitive) To collapse heavily or helplessly.
(intransitive) To decline or fall off in activity or performance.
(intransitive) To slouch or droop.
(transitive) To lump; to throw together messily.
To fall or sink suddenly through or in, when walking on a surface, as on thawing snow or ice, a bog, etc.
(transitive, slang) To cause to collapse; to hit hard; to render unconscious; to kill.
[Noun]
A heavy or helpless collapse; a slouching or drooping posture; a period of poor activity or performance, especially an extended period.
A measure of the fluidity of freshly mixed concrete, based on how much the concrete formed in a standard slump cone sags when the cone is removed.
(geology) A form of mass wasting in which a coherent mass of loosely consolidated materials or a rock layer moves a short distance down a slope.
(geology, loosely) A crater or depression (an area where the ground slumps) which forms as a result of such wasting. (A large crater is colloquially called a megaslump.)
(UK, dialect) A boggy place.
(Scotland) The noise made by anything falling into a hole, or into a soft, miry place.
(Scotland) The gross amount; the mass; the lump.
A cobbler-like dessert cooked on a stove.