crapshooter
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of crapshooter
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Years later the student has become district attorney, the crapshooter a top-money gambler.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Either I'm the stupidest guy around or the biggest crapshooter in town," he said before opening his $1.5 billion Venetian mega-resort in 1999, complete with canals, gondola rides and its own convention center next door.
From Time Magazine Archive
An inveterate crapshooter, he may have gambled unwisely with the SEC, but as a former test pilot, he apparently knew when to bail out.
From Time Magazine Archive
Shipped to the Pacific before finishing Harvard, he came out of the war a radioman third class and crapshooter first class.
From Time Magazine Archive
She was like a crapshooter when he keeps calling to the dice: "Come, seven—come on, come on!"
From Somewhere in Red Gap by Harry Leon Wilson
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.
