crap

noun
/kɹæp/

Etymology

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.

  1. derived from krappen
  2. derived from crappe
  3. derived from crape
  4. inherited from crappe

Definitions

  1. The husk of grain

    The husk of grain; chaff.

  2. Something worthless or of poor quality

    Something worthless or of poor quality; junk.

    • The long-running game show went from offering good prizes to crap in no time.
  3. Nonsense

    Nonsense; something untrue.

    • The college student boasted of completing a 10,000-word essay on Shakespeare, but that claim was utter crap.
  4. + 10 more definitions
    1. Feces.

      • I stepped in some dog crap that was on the sidewalk.
    2. An act of defecation.

      • I have to take a crap.
    3. To defecate.

      • That soup tasted funny, and now I need to crap.
    4. To defecate in or on (clothing etc.).

      • He almost crapped his pants from fright.
    5. To bullshit.

      • Don't try to crap me: I know you're lying.
    6. Of poor quality.

      • I drove an old crap car for ten years before buying a new one.
    7. 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?!
    8. A losing throw of 2, 3, or 12 in craps.

    9. 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.
      • 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.
    10. Initialism of Conservative-Reform Alliance Party, since merged into the Canadian Alliance.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for crap. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA