crash pad

crash pad

A place where free accommodation is provided on a temporary basis. Because of our spare bedroom, our house has become something of a crash pad for visiting friends and family.
See also: crash, pad
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

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]
See also: crash, pad
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
See also:
  • pad
  • pad down
  • pad down somewhere
  • put (something) into service
  • impress (something) into (something)
  • impress into
  • scour (something) off of (something else)
  • scour (something) out of (something else)
  • scour out of
  • scour out
References in periodicals archive
The crash pad will open its doors in the next month.
1 The Patch, for Sour Patch Kids, popped up in Brooklyn, N.Y., and Austin, Texas, for on-the-road artists in need of a crash pad.
It's incredible that 10 years after starring in my first sex scene (The Crash Pad), I'd be working alongside my director helping to spread her smart and sexy films across the world," says Lee.
Though not quite the big three-oh just yet, Marosi has seen a fair bit of the world and once called the Caribbean and Australia home, with Dubai becoming his latest crash pad.
French company EverSnow is currently constructing a 400m[sup.2] snow garden, with a cross-country skiing trail, a freestyle ramp complete with crash pad, an ice-climbing wall and a 100m[sup.2] skating rink.
From the award-winning textiles of Crash Pad Designs, amazing wood working by Jesse Price of The Quondam Tree, one of a kind re imagined furniture by Salvaged Serendipity and vintage finds, there is a something for everyone.
Other features include UA Scent Control lining and ClutchFit ankle support, a lightweight molded EVA midsole, an Ortholite sockliner --with a memory foam top layer and a Poron heel crash pad, among many others.
Daniyar's mom, Maira Nazarbayeva, insists that the then-couple had purchased the apartment as a crash pad for Daniyar and their younger son, Khanbolat.
Related has a policy of having all of its senior executives live in its developments--Stephen Ross lives in a Time Warner townhouse and also has a little crash pad at Superior Ink.
The upholstery has been given a higher quality materiA[degrees] al on the front and rear doors while the passenger side crash pad has been upgraded as well.
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Declawed and prone to lounging, they would love to make your house their permanent crash pad.
The installation Punk Rock Crash Pad, 1979-86, covered the walls of the gallery's attic in the black plastic of garbage and body bags; on the floor was a mattress, presumably occupied by a young rocker, a stand-in for the artist, who had been a member of the punk-noise band Culturecide.
They are favoured by a variety of buyers including students, ?rst time buyers, single people, couples and as a city crash pad for commuting workers, for their affordability and other bene?ts such as location.
To maximise their time together the couple have decided to make their main base in convenient New York, where they purchased a 2.7million dollars 'crash pad' in Tribeca last year.