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crap
CIDE DICTIONARY
crap, n.
- In the game of craps, a first throw of the dice in which the total is two, three, or twelve, in which case the caster loses. Also called
craps . [Webster 1913 Suppl.] - nonsense; balderdash; bullshit; -- also used as an expletive. [PJC]
crap, v.
to defecate. Same as take a crap. [PJC]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
crap, n. & v. coarse sl.
--n.
1 (often as int.) nonsense, rubbish (he talks crap).
2 faeces.
--v.intr. (crapped, crapping) defecate.
--n.
1 (often as int.) nonsense, rubbish (he talks crap).
2 faeces.
--v.intr. (crapped, crapping) defecate.
Idiom
crap out US
1 be unsuccessful.
2 withdraw from a game etc.
1 be unsuccessful.
2 withdraw from a game etc.
Usage
Usually considered a taboo word.
crap, n. US a losing throw of 2, 3, or 12 in craps.
Idiom
crap game a game of craps.
Etymology
formed as CRAPS
THESAURUS
crap
BM, balls, baloney, bilge, blague, blah, blah-blah, bloody flux, bop, bosh, bowel movement, buffalo chips, bull, bullshit, bunk, bunkum, ca-ca, cast, catharsis, claptrap, coprolite, coprolith, cow chips, cow flops, cow pats, craps, defecate, defecation, dejection, diarrhea, dingleberry, drivel, droppings, dung, dysentery, evacuate, evacuation, eyewash, feces, feculence, flam, flapdoodle, flimflam, flux, gammon, gas, guano, guff, gup, hogwash, hoke, hokum, hooey, hot air, humbug, humbuggery, jakes, jiggery-pokery, lientery, loose bowels, malarkey, manure, moonshine, movement, natural, nick, night soil, number two, ordure, piffle, poppycock, purgation, purge, roll, rot, runs, scat, sewage, sewerage, shit, shits, shot, stool, take a shit, throw, tommyrot, tripe, trots, turd, turistas, twaddle, void, voidance, windROGET THESAURUS
crap
Uncleanness
N uncleanness, impurity, immundity, immundicity, impurity, defilement, contamination, defoedation, soilure, soiliness, abomination, leaven, taint, tainture, fetor, decay, putrescence, putrefaction, corruption, mold, must, mildew, dry rot, mucor, rubigo, slovenry, slovenliness, squalor, dowdy, drab, slut, malkin, slattern, sloven, slammerkin, slammock, slummock, scrub, draggle-tail, mudlark, dust-man, sweep, beast, dirt, filth, soil, slop, dust, cobweb, flue, smoke, soot, smudge, smut, grit, grime, raff, sossle, sozzle, sordes, dregs, grounds, lees, argol, sediment, settlement heeltap, dross, drossiness, mother, precipitate, scoriae, ashes, cinders, recrement, slag, scum, froth, hogwash, ditchwater, dishwater, bilgewater, rinsings, cheeseparings, sweepings, offscourings, outscourings, off scum, caput mortuum, residuum, sprue, fecula, clinker, draff, scurf, scurfiness, exuviae, morphea, fur, furfur, dandruff, tartar, riffraff, vermin, louse, flea, bug, chinch, mud, mire, quagmire, alluvium, silt, sludge, slime, slush, slosh, sposh, spawn, offal, gurry, lientery, garbage, carrion, excreta, slough, peccant humor, pus, matter, suppuration, lienteria, faeces, feces, excrement, ordure, dung, crap, shit, sewage, sewerage, muck, coprolite, guano, manure, compost, dunghill, colluvies, mixen, midden, bog, laystall, sink, privy, jakes, toilet, john, head, cess, cesspool, sump, sough, cloaca, latrines, drain, sewer, common sewer, Cloacina, dust hole, sty, pigsty, lair, den, Augean stable, sink of corruption, slum, rookery, dirty, filthy, grimy, unclean, impure, soiled, not to be handled with kid gloves, dusty, snuffy, smutty, sooty, smoky, thick, turbid, dreggy, slimy, mussy, slovenly, untidy, messy, uncleanly, unkempt, sluttish, dowdy, draggle-tailed, uncombed, unscoured, unswept, unwiped, unwashed, unstrained, unpurified, squalid, lutose, slammocky, slummocky, sozzly, nasty, coarse, foul, offensive, abominable, beastly, reeky, reechy, fetid, decayed, moldy, musty, mildewed, rusty, moth-eaten, mucid, rancid, weak, bad, gone bad, etercoral, lentiginous, touched, fusty, effete, reasty, rotten, corrupt, tainted, high, flyblown, maggoty, putrid, putrefactive, putrescent, putrefied, saprogenic, saprogenous, purulent, carious, peccant, fecal, feculent, stercoraceous, excrementitious, scurfy, scurvy, impetiginous, gory, bloody, rotting, rotten as a pear, rotten as cheese, crapulous, gross, fimetarious, fimicolous, they that touch pitch will be defiled.Excretion
N excretion, discharge, emanation, exhalation, exudation, extrusion, secretion, effusion, extravasation, ecchymosis, evacuation, dejection, faeces, excrement, shit, stools, crap, bloody flux, cacation, coeliac-flux, coeliac- passion, dysentery, perspiration, sweat, subation, exudation, diaphoresis, sewage, eccrinology, saliva, spittle, rheum, ptyalism, salivation, catarrh, diarrhoea, ejecta, egesta, sputa, excreta, lava, exuviae, hemorrhage, bleeding, outpouring.For further exploring for "crap" in Webster Dictionary Online