Meanings
crapo1
Crapo2
plural Crapos
- A surname.
“The question is PNTR, which is absent. And then they had some other stuff on the WTO in there, which is kind of hollow if we don’t do PNTR,” Crapo said earlier in the day.
2022 March 10, Kaitlan Collins, Manu Raju, Kate Sullivan, MJ Lee and John Harwood, “Biden calls for suspending normal trade relations with Russia and will ban imports of vodka and seafood”, in CNN
Origin
- Old Frenchcresp
- Middle FrenchCrespeau
- FrenchCrépeau
- Siciliancrapu“he-goat”
- EnglishCrapo
Uncertain origin and variable origins depending on the ancestry of the bearer : * In some cases, possibly borrowed from Sicilian crapu (“he-goat”), masculine and obsolete form of crapa (“she-goat”). Compare also Italian capro. * In some cases, from French Crépeau, derived from Middle French Crespeau or Crepeau, itself from Old French cresp.
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crapo. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/crapo
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