crap

plural craps

1. obsoleteuncountableusuallyThe husk of grain; chaff.
2. mildlyslanguncountableusuallyvulgarSomething worthless or of poor quality; junk.

   The long-running game show went from offering good prizes to crap in no time.

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   "My wife and I have asked a crowd of craps To come and waste their time and ours: perhaps You'd care to join us?"

   1971, Philip Larkin, Vers de Société

3. mildlyslanguncountableusuallyvulgarNonsense; something untrue.

   The college student boasted of completing a 10,000-word essay on Shakespeare, but that claim was utter crap.

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   'Be seeing you.' 'Crap,' said the negro with conviction. 'Get goin'.'

   1954, Ian Fleming, “Table Z”, in Live and Let Die, London: Pan Books, published 1957, page 62

4. mildlyslanguncountableusuallyvulgarFeces.

   I stepped in some dog crap that was on the sidewalk.

   Synonyms: poop

5. countablemildlyslangusuallyvulgarAn act of defecation.

   I have to take a crap.

present singular third person craps · participle present crapping · participle past crapped · past crapped

1. intransitivemildlyslangvulgarTo defecate.

   That soup tasted funny, and now I need to crap.

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   'Well, the case is all yours,' said Binswanger grudgingly. 'But the Commissioner sure don't like having this bastard crappin' away on his own front doorstep while Mr Hoover sits down in Washington well to leeward of the stink. Why don't we pull him in on tax evasion or misuse of the mails or parkin' in front of a hydrant or sumpn? Take him down to the Tombs and give 'em the works? If the Feds won't do it, we'd be glad to oblige.'

   1954, Ian Fleming, “The Big Switchboard”, in Live and Let Die, London: Pan Books, published 1957, page 36

   Synonyms: defecate

2. mildlyslangtransitivevulgarTo defecate in or on (clothing etc.).

   He almost crapped his pants from fright.

3. IndiamildlyslangtransitivevulgarTo bullshit.

   Don't try to crap me: I know you're lying.

comparative crapper · superlative crappest · alternative Canada US crappy

1. colloquialmildlyvulgarOf poor quality.

   I drove an old crap car for ten years before buying a new one.

   Synonyms: cruddy, lousy, mid, second-rate, shoddy, ass, bad, base

1. mildlyslangvulgarExpression of worry, fear, shock, surprise, disgust, annoyance, or dismay.

   What the crap?!

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   Oh crap! The other driver's going to hit my car!

   Crap! I lost the game.

   Aw, crap, I have to start over again from the beginning of the level.

plural craps

1. diceA losing throw of 2, 3, or 12 in craps.
2. attributiveAttributive form of craps.

   To test the possibility that her husband’s luck was indestructible, Mary went to the crap tables and made a small bet.

   1974, John Savage, The Winner’s Guide to Dice, New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →ISBN, page 16

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   I step up to the least-crowded crap table, taking my place to the right of a country-and-western-type stickwoman with tightly permed blond hair who looks as if she would be more comfortable dressed in the square-dance outfit of the Frontier than wearing the chinoiserie, or maybe the japonaiserie, of her purple kimono uniform.

   1992, Edward Allen, Mustang Sally, New York, N.Y.; London: W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 72

   Separately, you are playing in a crap game. The crap bets earn you $20,000 a year so long as rates stay put but could cost you a $100,000 or $200,000 loss if rates go up.

   2014 December 29, William Baldwin, “Yield Games”, in Forbes, page 103

1. CanadaabbreviationderogatoryhumorousinitialismgovernmentInitialism of Conservative-Reform Alliance Party, since merged into the Canadian Alliance.

   Synonyms: RCAP, CA