crash out

Meanings

1. To fall asleep from exhaustion.
2. To terminate with an unhandled error; to crash.
3. To be eliminated from a competition.
4. To produce or create rapidly; to bang out.
5. To rapidly precipitate.
6. To become uncontrollably angry or upset; to rage, snap.
7. To break out of a prison.
8. To act out recklessly and violently, often in a way that leads to self-destruction or serious consequences, typically in enraged reaction to something.

1. A reckless individual, often with nothing to lose; a person prone to crashing out.
2. An instance of being uncontrollably angry or upset.

Etymology

From crash + out. References online to the slang sense go as far back as a Twitter post from 2013, attributed to YoungBoy Never Broke Again, a rapper from Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Popularized by a December 2023 viral TikTok video.