The term “slump” serves a variety of roles in literary texts. It is often used to depict a physical decline or the act of sagging, as when a character “began to slump back into his former position” ([1]) or “slump down in the snow” ([2]). In other contexts, it embodies the notion of deterioration—be it economic, such as a “slump in war industry values” ([3]) or a broader downturn in market conditions ([4]), or even as a metaphor for personal or athletic decline, as seen when a player's poor performance is attributed to being “in a slump” ([5]). The word also functions as a distinctive proper name, most notably with the recurrent figure Ike Slump, who appears in dialogue and narrative comments ([6], [7], [8]), and even pops up in culinary references like “Apple Slump” ([9]).