Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A losing first throw in the game of craps.
- intransitive verb To make a losing throw in the game of craps. Usually used with out.
- noun Excrement.
- noun An act of defecating.
- noun Foolish, deceitful, or boastful language.
- noun Cheap or shoddy material.
- noun Miscellaneous or disorganized items; clutter.
- noun Insolent talk or behavior.
- intransitive verb To defecate.
- interjection Used to express anger or displeasure.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The highest part or top of anything.
- noun The crop or craw of a fowl: used ludicrously for a man's stomach.
- noun A crop of grain.
- To raise a crop.
- noun A throw with dice; especially, a losing cast in the game of craps, when the total of pips on the two dice is 2, 3, or 12. See
craps . - noun Darnel.
- noun Buckwheat.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- verb vulgar to defecate. Same as
take a crap . - noun 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 . - noun vulgar same as
excrement andfeces . - noun vulgar nonsense; balderdash; bullshit; -- also used as an expletive.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun gambling A losing throw of 2, 3 or 12 in
craps - noun obsolete The
husk ofgrain ;chaff . - noun slang Something of poor quality.
- noun slang, vulgar Something that is rubbish; nonsense.
- noun slang, vulgar
Faeces orfeces ; a euphemism forshit . - noun slang, vulgar, countable An act of
defecation . - noun slang Useless object, sometimes used as a plural
- verb slang To
defecate . - adjective Of poor
quality . - interjection slang Expression of worry, fear, shock, surprise, disgust, annoyance or dismay.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun obscene terms for feces
- noun obscene words for unacceptable behavior
- verb have a bowel movement
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The “stars and bars” south will rise again crap is mostly heard only from drunken, lower class, white males.
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The “stars and bars” south will rise again crap is mostly heard only from drunken, lower class, white males.
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The “stars and bars” south will rise again crap is mostly heard only from drunken, lower class, white males.
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This Hussein crap is awful Ben, and no different than Republican swiftboat rhetoric.
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Yeah, all that compliance with the constitution crap is code for throwing out the constitution ... right Huffington ...
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This crap is also why L.A. is the worst in the country and quite possibly the world.
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This crap is also why L.A. is the worst in the country and quite possibly the world.
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All this crap is ancient, useless management-babble, with nothing new in it.
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Hmmm ... i hear you and a lot of times i wonder what the crap is about!
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This crap is also why L.A. is the worst in the country and quite possibly the world.
chained_bear commented on the word crap
Interestingly (maybe only to me), the coarse slang meaning of this word only came about (according to the OED) in the last years of the nineteenth century. For about six hundred years before that, it didn't mean poop at all.
"Identical with earlier Du. krappe ‘carptus, carptura, res decerpta, frustum decerptum siue abscissum, pars abrasa siue abscissa; pars carnis abscissa; crustum; offella, offula; placenta; pulpamentum’ (Kilian, 1599), connected with krappen to pluck off, cut off, separate. Cf. also F. crape, OF. crappe siftings, also ‘the grain trodden under feet in the barn, and mingled with the straw and dust’ (M. L. Delisle in Godef.), med.L. crappa in Du Cange. (Cf. also crapinum the smaller chaff.) In mod.F. the word has taken the sense of ‘dirt, filth’, and ‘grease of a millstone’. It is doubtful whether all the senses here placed belong to one word, though a common notion of ‘rejected or left matter, residue, dregs, dust’ runs through them."
October 15, 2008
gangerh commented on the word crap
I've always assumed its modern meaning is derived from the famous WC designer and manufacturer Thomas Crapper.
October 15, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word crap
Well... I think that's an apocryphal connection, though there was a Thomas Crapper. You may be right. I'm not the one who's going to research it though.
October 15, 2008
oroboros commented on the word crap
Asian pronunciation of an STD?
August 25, 2009
hernesheir commented on the word crap
Century Dictionary's 6th entry correctly defines crap as buckwheat.
Buck wheat, called in some counties crap --definition from Grose's (1787) A Provincial Glossary. Recorded in Essex, Suffolk, and Norfolk.
May 4, 2011
hernesheir commented on the word crap
Century Dictionary's 5th entry defines crap as the highest part or top of any thing. Dr. Jamieson's Scottish Dictionary and Supplement, 1841, offers these phrases: "The crap of the earth", the surface of the ground; "the crap of a fishing-wand", the top or uppermost section of a fishing-rod. In the Scots Buchan dialect the cones of fir trees are called fir-craps.
June 1, 2011
hernesheir commented on the word crap
"The grain put at once on a kiln to be dried." --Dr. Jamieson's Scottish Dictionary and Supplement, 1841.
June 1, 2011
hernesheir commented on the word crap
"To fill; to stuff. Hence, crappit heads, the heads of haddocks stuffed with a pudding made of the roe, oatmeal, and spiceries; formerly an accompaniment to fish and sauce in Scotland." --Dr. Jamieson's Scottish Dictionary and Supplement, 1841.
June 1, 2011