midcrash

English

Etymology

mid- +‎ crash

Noun

midcrash (uncountable)

  1. A point in time during a crash.
    • 2009 May 22, Ken Johnson, “Video Spectacles, Imagined or, in One Case, Real”, in New York Times‎:
      Made in 2001, the eerily prophetic “Middlemen” shows the paper-strewn floor of a stock exchange apparently in midcrash.
    • 2007, Metropolis, volume 26, numbers 9-10:
      They're present in the spongy feeling when you walk in your high-tech running shoes, the building envelope that insulates your home or office, the designed collapse of your car's bumper in midcrash.

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