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
Evangeliya	-	Bulgarian
Bennie	BEN-ee	English
Eseoghene	-	Western African, Urhobo
Janice	JAN-is	English
Chrysanthos	-	Greek, Ancient Greek
Abu Bakr	-	Arabic