craps
a game in which two dice are thrown and in which a first throw of 7 or 11 wins, a first throw of 2, 3, or 12 loses, and a first throw of 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, or 10 can be won only by throwing the same number again before throwing a 7.
Origin of craps
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How to use craps in a sentence
Pre-covid, you could probably snuggle 12 to 14 people at a big craps table.
Headed to a casino this summer? Here’s what to expect. | Erika Mailman | June 24, 2021 | Washington PostIt was my turn to shoot, so I leaned over the craps table and scooped up the dice.
Headed to a casino this summer? Here’s what to expect. | Erika Mailman | June 24, 2021 | Washington PostIn the years that followed, “Bezos invested Amazon’s winnings like a crazed gambler at the craps table in Las Vegas,” Stone writes.
How did Amazon grow so fast? By thinking outside the shipping box. | Marc Levinson | May 7, 2021 | Washington PostWhen my grandfather, Russ, came of age he shifted from alcohol to gambling, the next income stream that the mob developed, running craps games out of the back of his car.
What My Mobster Grandfather Understood About American Capitalism | Russell Shorto | March 17, 2021 | Timecraps was just too risky, and—in a far stretch—this was meant as a way to measure how my father would govern.
craps, played by these free-handed sons of the open, had more of a punch than he had imagined possible.
Partners of Chance | Henry Herbert KnibbsAt craps, I fear, my hand in late years had lost much of its cunning.
The Little Warrior | P. G. WodehouseAt craps, I fear, my hand in late years has lost much of its cunning.
Jill the Reckless | P. G. (Pelham Grenville) WodehouseThe now practically obsolete game of Hazard was much more complicated than craps.
British Dictionary definitions for craps
/ (kræps) /
a gambling game using two dice, in which a player wins the bet if 7 or 11 is thrown first, and loses if 2, 3, or 12 is thrown
shoot craps to play this game
Origin of craps
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