slump
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- n a noticeable deterioration in performance or quality
the team went into a slump - n a long-term economic state characterized by unemployment and low prices and low levels of trade and investment
- v assume a drooping posture or carriage
- v fall or sink heavily
He slumped onto the couch - v fall heavily or suddenly; decline markedly
- v go down in value
prices slumped
- Some also see the slump as a delayed effect of the vacillating economic strategy of Reagan's predecessor.
- The real estate slump has no quick fix, and could expand into a full-blown recession.
- True, the Red Sox slugger broke out of a truly embarrassing slump over the weekend, but he did so against the Texas Rangers, the second-worst team in the Major Leagues.