creps
Britishplural noun
Etymology
Origin of creps
of uncertain origin
Example Sentences
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But every page, by dint of sheer linguistic exuberance, carries its own adventure: “The guy’s dirty trainers were too near my creps, making me milly.”
From The New Yorker • Jan. 7, 2019
Craps as we know it today is simply a French simplification of hazard, or krabs, and the word craps, originally spelled creps or kreps, is a corruption of the English crabs.
From Time Magazine Archive
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