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Crap

Noun CEFR A2 Frequent
kɹæp

Definitions

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

Equivalents

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עבריתחרא
हिन्दीभंकस
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日本語かす
Қазақ тілібоқ
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한국어개털
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Українськаблядство
Tiếng Việtcútphắn

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.”

CEFR level

A2
Elementary
This word is part of the CEFR A2 vocabulary — elementary level.
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