# crapper

Pronunciation: US say "KRAP-ur" /ˈkɹæ.pɚ/; UK/AUS say "KRAP-uh" /ˈkɹæ.pə/

## Noun

1. A toilet, including an outhouse or a chamber pot; in dated use, especially a flush toilet made by Thomas Crapper. *(slang)*
   - Simple: A toilet, or an outdoor hut or pot that people use as a toilet.
   - _The cabin had no plumbing, just a crapper out back behind the woodpile._
   - _He spent half the morning on the crapper with the sports pages._
3. A scornful, often vulgar name for a rapper or other performer of rap music. *(slang)*
   - Simple: A rude name for a rapper, used by people who think rap music is bad.
   - _Another crapper mumbling rhymes over a drum machine topped the charts this week._
   - _The old rock fans dismissed the festival's rap acts as a bunch of crappers._

## Adjective

2. Comparative of crap. *(colloquial)* — comparative form of crap: more crap
   - Simple: Comparative of crap. It is rude slang for worse, so avoid it in polite talk.
   - _Each season of the show felt crapper than the last._
   - _The hotel turned out to be a lot crapper than the photos suggested._

## Origin

**Meanings 1–2** — From crap + -er, although it was possibly repopularized by barracks that used Thomas Crapper's plumbing fixtures during the First World War. The surname Crapper itself comes from a dialect form of cropper (“harvester of crops, farmer”).
**Meaning 3** — A blend of crap and rapper, implying that rap music is inferior.

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