QUIZ: Can You Guess What The WWI Trench Slang Means?

Caroline Gawlik|History|10 Apr 2019

Crump-Hole

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Retry Correct Incorrect The word crump is an old English word for a hard hit. In 1914 when the Germans began using heavy artillery shells, crump-hole came to mean the hole left behind after the hard blow.
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Crump-Hole

  • A place to hide from the enemy
  • A crater left over from an explosion
  • A safe space far away from the frontlines
  • A trench’s latrine
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