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.

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]

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Zehra	-	Turkish
Anthoney	['æntəni]
&Thorn;ÓRketill	-	Ancient Scandinavian
Lorenza	-	Italian, Spanish
Badri	-	Georgian
IzidÓRa	-	Hungarian (Rare)