crap
Of poor quality.
Adjective
- Of poor quality.
- I drove an old crap car for ten years before buying a new one.
Synonyms: cruddy lousy mid second-rate shoddy ass bad base below par bottom-shelf BTEC bum cheap cheap and nasty cheapshit cheesy chintzy coffee-and crap crappo crappy craptastic crapperific craptabulous
Origin
Etymology tree Old Dutch krappender. Old French crappe Middle French crapebor. Middle English crappe English crap From Middle English crappe, also in plural: crappys, craps (“chaff; buckwheat”), from Middle French crape, from Old French crappe, crapin (“chaff”) (compare Medieval Latin crappa pl, also crapinum), from Old Dutch krappen (“to cut off, pluck off”) (whence Middle Dutch crappe, crap (“a chop, cutlet”), whence Dutch krip (“a steak”)). Related to crop.
Forms
Derived
Interjection
- Expression of worry, fear, shock, surprise, disgust, annoyance, or dismay.
- Oh crap! The other driver's going to hit my car!
- Crap! I lost the game.
- What the crap?!
Noun obsolete, uncountable
- The husk of grain; chaff.
- Something worthless or of poor quality; junk.
- The long-running game show went from offering good prizes to crap in no time.
- "My wife and I have asked a crowd of craps To come and waste their time and ours: perhaps You'd care to join us?" - 1971, Philip Larkin, Vers de Société:
- Nonsense; something untrue.
- The college student boasted of completing a 10,000-word essay on Shakespeare, but that claim was utter crap.
- Feces.
- I stepped in some dog crap that was on the sidewalk.
- An act of defecation.
- I have to take a crap.
Forms
Synonyms
poop poo dump crud shit. Note: often used as a less vulgar synonym for or minced form of shit in all its senses
Derived
and crap bat-crap batcrap beat the crap out of birdcrap black plastic crap bullcrap crapalicious crap artist crapass crap circus crapface crapfest crapfic crapflood crapgame crap hat craphat craphead crapheap craphole craphouse crapitalism crapitalist
Noun dice, gambling
- A losing throw of 2, 3, or 12 in craps.
- Attributive form of craps.
- To test the possibility that her husband’s luck was indestructible, Mary went to the crap tables and made a small bet. - 1974, John Savage, The Winner’s Guide to Dice, New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →ISBN, page 16:
- I step up to the least-crowded crap table, taking my place to the right of a country-and-western-type stickwoman with tightly permed blond hair who looks as if she would be more comfortable dressed in the square-dance...
- Separately, you are playing in a crap game. The crap bets earn you $20,000 a year so long as rates stay put but could cost you a $100,000 or $200,000 loss if rates go up. - 2014 December 29, William Baldwin, “Yield...
Origin
From crab's eyes.
Forms
Derived
Verb
- To defecate.
- That soup tasted funny, and now I need to crap.
- 'Well, the case is all yours,' said Binswanger grudgingly. 'But the Commissioner sure don't like having this bastard crappin' away on his own front doorstep while Mr Hoover sits down in Washington well to leeward of the...
- To defecate in or on (clothing etc.).
- He almost crapped his pants from fright.
- To bullshit.
- Don't try to crap me: I know you're lying.
Forms
Synonyms
Derived
crap around crap on crap oneself crap one's pants crap something out crap up does a bear crap in the woods