crumpet

plural crumpets

1. countableuncountableA type of savoury cake, typically flat and round, made from batter and yeast, containing many small holes and served toasted, usually with butter.

   T-Saint: I say we kill 'em! Donner: I say we hump 'em. Booga: I say we eat crumpets and tea. Deetee: Tasty! Crumpets and tea. All in favor of crumpets and tea, say "I." All: I! T-Saint: Shut up! Ain't gonna be no crumpets and tea.

   1995, Tedi Sarafian, Tank Girl, spoken by T-Saint, Deetee & Booger (respectively) (Ice-T, Jeff Kober, and Reg E. Cathey)

2. UKcountabledatedslanguncountableA sexually attractive person or, collectively, people; usually referring to women.

   John and his mates have gone out to find themselves some crumpet.

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   Joan Bakewell was famously described as "the thinking man's crumpet".

   The regulars are all guys, a varied selection, my friends. There's Sammy—small, wiry, dark-haired. A hat manufacturer, crumpet mad—always chatting up different birds.

   1969, Jackie Collins, The Stud, reprint edition, Simon & Schuster, published 1999, →ISBN, page 32

   Our lives are saturated with middle-class crumpet Benedict Cumberbatch - but does he deserve the attention, asks Michael Hogan

   2014 November 12, Michael Hogan, “Have we reached peak Benedict Cumberbatch?”, in The Telegraph

   Synonyms: beautiful person

3. AustraliaUKcountableslanguncountableThe head.

   He bad been worried off his crumpet all day, making arrangements on her behalf.

   1900 October 27, The Warwick Argus, Qld, page 4, column 5

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   "If I don't get down them stairs soon I'll go off my crumpet, sittin' about up here all day with the jumps on me."

   1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 80