Crap Definition

krăp
crapped, crapping, craps, crapper, crappest
noun
craps
Webster's New World
Excrement.
Webster's New World
An act of defecating.
American Heritage
Foolish, deceitful, or boastful language.
American Heritage
Nonsense, falseness, insincerity, etc.
Webster's New World
verb
crapped, crapping, craps
To make a losing throw in the game of craps. Usually used with out.
American Heritage
To defecate.
Webster's New World
interjection
Used to express anger, disgust, surprise, etc.
Webster's New World
adjective
crapper, crappest

(chiefly UK, colloquial, somewhat vulgar) Of poor quality.

I drove an old crap car for ten years before buying a new one.
Wiktionary
abbreviation
(Canada, politics) Conservative-Reform Alliance Party or Reform-Conservative Alliance Party or Canadian Alliance.
Wiktionary
idiom
crap out
  • to lose at craps by throwing a two, three, or twelve on the first throw or a seven after one's point has been established
  • to fail, withdraw, give up, etc. because of exhaustion, cowardice, etc.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Crap

Noun

Singular:
crap
Plural:
craps

Adjective

Base Form:
crap
Comparative:
crapper
Superlative:
crappest

Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Crap

Origin of Crap

  • From Middle English crappe, also in plural: crappen, crappys, craps (“chaff; buckwheat”), from Old French crappe, crapin ("chaff"; compare Medieval Latin crappa (plural), also crapinum), from Old Dutch krappen (“to cut off, pluck off”). Related to crop.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English crappe chaff from Old French crappe from Medieval Latin crappa perhaps of Germanic origin

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Back-formation from craps

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From "crab's eyes"

    From Wiktionary

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