craps
- 1A game of luck where people bet money and throw dice, hoping not to roll a losing number.
My uncle likes to play craps when he visits the casino.
In craps, you throw the dice and hope for a good number.
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- 2Third-person singular present of crap. It is rude slang, used with he, she, it or a singular noun.
Our cat craps outside the litter box when she is upset.
Dad jokes that the new baby craps more than she eats.
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- 3Plural of crap. Use it when you count more than one.
The puppy took two craps on the kitchen floor this morning.
She threw two craps in a row and lost all her chips.
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- 4Diarrhea, when you have loose, watery poop and need the bathroom often. Always used with the.
I ate some bad tacos and had the craps all night.
Grandpa says spicy food always gives him the craps.
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craps is a form of crap
crap, noun: Things that are useless or badly made. Full entry
- Forms
- crapcraps plural
- Spelling
- crap → craps: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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Origins
From a Louisiana Creole word that came from the English word crabs.
The plural of crap.
A form of the verb crap.