# crap

Pronunciation: say "KRAP" /kɹæp/

## Noun

1. Stuff that is worthless or of poor quality. *(slang)*
   - Simple: Things that are useless or badly made.
   - _Half the gifts at the office party were useless crap nobody wanted._
   - _The garage is packed with thirty years of broken furniture and other crap._
2. Talk or claims that are nonsense or untrue. *(slang)*
   - Simple: Things people say that are silly or not true.
   - _The salesman's promise of a lifetime warranty turned out to be complete crap._
   - _I'm tired of hearing the same crap about how the project is almost finished._
5. Solid waste passed out of the body through the bowels. *(slang)*
   - Simple: Solid waste from the body of a person or animal.
   - _Someone forgot to clean up after their dog, and now there's crap all over the park path._
   - _The plumber pulled out a wad of toilet paper and crap that had clogged the pipe._
8. A single act of emptying the bowels. *(slang)*
   - Simple: One act of getting rid of solid waste from your body.
   - _Halfway through the hike, Tom wandered off behind a tree to take a crap._
   - _He came back from his morning crap complaining that the toilet was clogged._
7. Attributive form of craps: the dice game's name used before a noun, as in crap table or crap game. — Attributive form of craps.
   - Simple: Form of craps: the name of the dice game when it comes before another noun, as in crap table.
   - _The casino added two more crap tables to handle the weekend crowds._
   - _A noisy crap game had started up in the back room of the bar._
9. In craps, a losing throw of 2, 3, or 12.
   - Simple: In the dice game craps, a throw of 2, 3, or 12, which loses.
   - _Her first roll was a crap, a pair of ones, and the whole table groaned._
   - _He threw three straight craps and walked away from the table._

## Adjective

3. Of poor quality or a low standard. *(colloquial)*
   - Simple: Bad, or not made well.
   - _We stayed in a crap hotel with broken heating and thin walls._
   - _Honestly, the food at that place is crap, no matter what the reviews say._

## Interjection

4. Used as an exclamation of worry, fear, shock, surprise, disgust, annoyance, or dismay. *(slang)*
   - Simple: Said when you feel worried, scared, shocked, surprised, upset, disgusted, or annoyed.
   - _Oh, crap, I left my wallet at the restaurant!_
   - _Crap! The printer jammed again, right before the meeting._

## Verb

6. To empty the bowels, sometimes in or on something such as one's clothing. *(slang)*
   - Simple: To pass solid waste from your body. Also to do this in your clothes by accident.
   - _Hikers should dig a small hole before they crap in the woods._
   - _Something he ate at the fair had him crapping all night._
10. To try to fool someone with lies or nonsense. *(slang, India)*
   - Simple: To lie to someone or try to trick them with silly talk.
   - _He tried to crap the professor about losing his assignment, but she had already checked the portal._
   - _"Stop trying to crap me," I told my cousin. "You promised to pay me back three times already."_

## Noun

11. The husks of grain; chaff. *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: The outer covering of grain seeds.

## Origin

**Meanings 1–6, 8, 10–11** — Old Dutch krappen, meaning to cut or pluck off, is the source. It gave Old French crappe or crapin ("chaff") (compare Medieval Latin crappa, crapinum), then Middle French crape and Middle English crappe, also found in the plural as crappys or craps, meaning chaff or buckwheat. The same Old Dutch verb produced Middle Dutch crappe, crap ("a chop, cutlet"), and from that Dutch krip ("a steak"). Crop is related.
**Meanings 7, 9** — From crab's eyes.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/crap (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).