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crap
1[ krap ]
noun
- Vulgar.
- an act of defecation.
- Slang: Sometimes Vulgar.
- nonsense; drivel.
- falsehood, exaggeration, propaganda, or the like.
- refuse; rubbish; junk; litter:
Will you clean up that crap!
verb (used without object)
- Vulgar. to defecate.
verb (used with object)
- Slang: Sometimes Vulgar. to talk nonsense to; attempt to deceive.
verb phrase
- Slang: Sometimes Vulgar.
- to treat badly, especially by humiliating, insulting, or slighting.
- to cause misery, misfortune, or discomfort.
- Slang: Sometimes Vulgar.
- to behave in a foolish or silly manner.
- to avoid work.
- Slang: Sometimes Vulgar. to botch, ruin, or cheapen; make a mess of.
crap
2[ krap ]
noun
- (in craps) a losing throw, in which the total on the two dice is 2, 3, or 12.
verb phrase
- Also called seven out. (in the game of craps) to throw a 7 rather than make one's point.
- Slang. to abandon a project, activity, etc., because of fear, cowardice, exhaustion, loss of enthusiasm, etc.
- Slang. to break a promise or fail to fulfill a duty or obligation; renege.
crap
1/ kræp /
Usage
Word History and Origins
Origin of crap1
Word History and Origins
Origin of crap1
Origin of crap2
Idioms and Phrases
- cut the comedy (crap)
- full of crap
Example Sentences
Wilson, too, doesn’t offer any miracle cures—because he’s not full of crap.
Maybe then, as the seas rise, ice sheets melt and disasters-of-a-millennia crowd up like Space Mountain thrill-seekers, it’s time to cut the crap.
That’s because reality battles with memory and kicks the crap out of it.
You’d park a car in a lot in the morning and then return after sunset, when all the yellow-tinted mercury vapor lights are lit, and the car would be all but unrecognizable—except for its shape, license plate, and the crap in the back seat, of course.
The pile of crap got so huge that it dripped down a meter length of the insulator and caused a short triggering an automatic shutdown.
She said, "Crap," and moved away, acknowledging that I'd gotten her.
I haven't had time to tell Maragon the boys on the Crap Patrol were wrong.
Each word is repeated to a man; and when the leader comes to “Crap in,” the man specified draws in his foot.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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