|həm(p)tē|dəm(p)tē, -ti...ti noun
( -es )
Usage: often capitalized H&D
Etymology: after Humpty-Dumpty, egg-shaped nursery-rhyme character who fell from a wall and broke into bits
: something that once damaged can never be repaired or made operative again
the exchange crisis … that brought the Humpty-Dumpty of currency stabilization tumbling — Atlantic
people fled into their suddenly Humpty-Dumpty world — Robert O'Brien