Meaning of Crap | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The husk of grain; chaff.
   obsolete, uncountable, usually
2. Initialism of Conservative-Reform Alliance Party, since merged into the Canadian Alliance.
   Canada, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
3. A losing throw of 2, 3, or 12 in craps.
4. Something worthless or of poor quality; junk.
   mildly, slang, uncountable, usually, vulgar
5. Attributive form of craps.
   attributive, form-of
6. Nonsense; something untrue.
   mildly, slang, uncountable, usually, vulgar
7. Feces.
   mildly, slang, uncountable, usually, vulgar
8. An act of defecation.
   countable, mildly, slang, usually, vulgar

Equivalents

Examples

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

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

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

“I have to take a crap.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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