crashes out
Falls asleep abruptly
Crashes out means to fall asleep suddenly and heavily, often from exhaustion: I crashed out on the couch after the night shift.
In competitions, to crash out is to be eliminated unexpectedly or dramatically: The defending champion crashed out in the first round.
In British slang, crashing out can mean leaving abruptly without a plan—notably applied to Brexit without a deal.
- knockoutIncapacitating final blow
- doze offFall briefly unconscious
- collapseSudden structural failure
- burnoutChronic occupational depletion
- disqualificationRemoval from eligibility
relegation · malfunction · elimination · hit the wall · withdrawal · flameout · defeat · halt · breakdown · freeze · ousted · meltdown · shutdown · outage · fatigue · disruption · upset · derailment