crap
Plural: craps
Noun
- obscene terms for feces
- obscene words for unacceptable behavior
- The husk of grain; chaff.
- Something worthless or of poor quality; junk.
- Nonsense; something untrue.
- Feces.
- An act of defecation.
- A losing throw of 2, 3, or 12 in craps.
- Attributive form of craps.
Verb
Verb Forms: crapped, crapping, craps
- To make a losing roll in the game of craps.
- have a bowel movement
- To defecate.
- To defecate in or on (clothing etc.).
- To bullshit.
Adj
- Of poor quality.
Intj
- Expression of worry, fear, shock, surprise, disgust, annoyance, or dismay.
Examples
- Aw, crap, I have to start over again from the beginning of the level.
- Crap! I lost the game.
- Don't try to crap me: I know you're lying.
- Drawing seven vowels feels like you’re about to crap out on your turn.
- He almost crapped his pants from fright.
- I drove an old crap car for ten years before buying a new one.
- I have to take a crap.
- I stepped in some dog crap that was on the sidewalk.
- Oh crap! The other driver's going to hit my car!
- That soup tasted funny, and now I need to crap.
- The college student boasted of completing a 10,000-word essay on Shakespeare, but that claim was utter crap.
- The long-running game show went from offering good prizes to crap in no time.
- What the crap?!
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English crappe, also in plural: crappys, craps (“chaff; buckwheat”), from Middle French crape, from Old French crappe, crapin (“chaff”) (compare Medieval Latin crappa pl, also crapinum), from Old Dutch krappen (“to cut off, pluck off”) (whence Middle Dutch crappe, crap (“a chop, cutlet”), whence Dutch krip (“a steak”)). Related to crop.
Synonyms
bull, bullshit, ca-ca, defecate, dirt, dogshit, horseshit, Irish bull, make, poop, shit, shite, stool, take a crap, take a shit, turd, bollocks, crud, dump, lousy, or minced form of, poo, shit in all its senses, shit. Note: often used as a less vulgar synonym for
Scrabble Score: 8
crap: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordcrap: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
crap: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary