# crap
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kɹæp/
* Rhymes: -æp
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### Etymology 1

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.

#### Noun

crap (usually uncountable, plural craps)
* (obsolete) The husk of grain; chaff.
* (slang, mildly vulgar, uncountable) Something worthless or of poor quality; junk.
    The long-running game show went from offering good prizes to crap in no time.
* (slang, mildly vulgar, uncountable) Nonsense; something untrue.
    The college student boasted of completing a 10,000-word essay on Shakespeare, but that claim was utter crap.
* (slang, mildly vulgar) Faeces/feces.
    I stepped in some dog crap that was on the sidewalk.
* (slang, mildly vulgar, countable) An act of defecation.
    I have to take a crap.

##### Usage notes

* The vulgarity of crap is a contentious topic, with many considering it to be a swear word while others do not. Nevertheless, it is generally considered to be impolite and is typically avoided in formal speech and writing.

##### Synonyms

* (faeces): poop, poo, dump, shit. Note: often used as a less vulgar synonym for, or minced form of, shit in all its senses.

##### Derived terms

* 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
* craphat
* crap hat
* craphead
* crapheap
* craphole
* craphouse
* crap in one's mouth
* crap in someone's mouth
* crapitalism
* crapitalist
* crapitude
* crapless
* craplication
* crapload
* crapmeister
* crapmobile
* crapoid
* crapola
* crapology
* crap on a stick
* craporama
* crapper
* crapperific
* crappify
* crappity
* crapplet
* crapplication
* crappuccino
* crappy
* crapsack
* crapshow
* crapstain
* crapstorm
* craptabulous
* craptacular
* craptastic
* CRAPTCHA
* crapton
* crapulation
* crapware
* cut the crap
* Democrap
* full of crap
* get one's crap together
* give a crap
* give a flying crap
* holy crap
* holy crap on a cracker
* holy crap on a stick
* horsecrap
* kick the crap out of
* load of crap
* metacrap
* piece of crap
* pile of crap
* Republicrap
* sack of crap
* take a crap
* what the crap

##### Translations
#### Verb

crap (third-person singular simple present craps, present participle crapping, simple past and past participle crapped)
* (mildly vulgar, slang, intransitive) To defecate.
    That soup tasted funny, and now I need to crap.
* (mildly vulgar, slang, transitive) To defecate in or on (clothing etc.).
    He almost crapped his pants from fright.
* (India, mildly vulgar, slang, transitive) To bullshit.
    Don't try to crap me: I know you're lying.

##### Synonyms

* (to shit): See Thesaurus:defecate
* (to BS): See bullshit

##### Derived terms

* crap around
* crap on (“to talk at length in a foolish or boring way”) (UK)
* crap oneself
* crap one's pants
* crap something out (“to damage or destroy something”)
* crap up
* does a bear crap in the woods

##### Translations
#### Adjective

crap (comparative crapper, superlative crappest)
* (colloquial, mildly vulgar) Of poor quality.
    I drove an old crap car for ten years before buying a new one.

##### Alternative forms

* crappy (chiefly Canada, US)

##### Synonyms

* lousy
* shit
* shite
* bollocks

##### Derived terms

* crapness

#### Interjection

crap
* (slang, often vulgar) 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?!
    Aw, crap, I have to start over again from the beginning of the level.

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

From crab's eyes.

#### Noun

crap (plural craps)
* (gambling, dice games) A losing throw of 2, 3, or 12 in craps.
* Attributive form of craps.
** 1974, John Savage, The Winner’s Guide to Dice, New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →ISBN, page 16:To test the possibility that her husband’s luck was indestructible, Mary went to the crap tables and made a small bet.
** 1992, Edward Allen, Mustang Sally, New York, N.Y., London: W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 72: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 outfit of the Frontier than wearing the chinoiserie, or maybe the japonaiserie, of her purple kimono uniform.
** 2014 December 29, William Baldwin, “Yield Games”, in Forbes, page 103: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.

##### Derived terms

* crap out
* crap shoot
* crap-shoot
* crapshoot
* crapshooter

### References

* Michael Quinion (2004) “Crap”, in Ballyhoo, Buckaroo, and Spuds: Ingenious Tales of Words and Their Origins, Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Books in association with Penguin Books, →ISBN.

### Anagrams

* -carp, ACPR, APCR, CARP, Carp, RCAP, carp, parc, prac

## Irish
### Alternative forms

* crup

### Etymology

From Middle Irish crapaid, ultimately from Norse, related to krappr.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kɾˠapˠ/
* (Ulster) IPA: /kɾˠʌpˠ/ (corresponding to the alternative form crup)

### Verb

crap (present analytic crapann, future analytic crapfaidh, verbal noun crapadh, past participle craptha)
* (transitive, intransitive) to shrink ((cause to) become smaller), constrict (to narrow)
* (intransitive) to contract (draw together, shorten, lessen)
* (transitive) to crumple (cause to collapse)
* to purse (press (the lips) together)
* to roll up (make into a cylindrical or fold-like shape)

#### Conjugation

| verbal noun | crapadh | crapadh | crapadh | crapadh | crapadh | crapadh | crapadh | crapadh |
| past participle | craptha | craptha | craptha | craptha | craptha | craptha | craptha | craptha |
| tense | singular | singular | singular | plural | plural | plural | relative | autonomous |
| tense | first | second | third | first | second | third | relative | autonomous |
| indicative |||||||||
| present | crapaim | crapann tú; crapair$^†$ | crapann sé, sí | crapaimid | crapann sibh | crapann siad; crapaid$^†$ | a chrapann; a chrapas / a gcrapann* | craptar |
| past | chrap mé; chrapas | chrap tú; chrapais | chrap sé, sí | chrapamar; chrap muid | chrap sibh; chrapabhair | chrap siad; chrapadar | a chrap / ar chrap* | crapadh |
| past habitual | chrapainn / gcrapainn‡‡ | chraptá / gcraptá‡‡ | chrapadh sé, sí / gcrapadh sé, sí‡‡ | chrapaimis; chrapadh muid / gcrapaimis‡‡; gcrapadh muid‡‡ | chrapadh sibh / gcrapadh sibh‡‡ | chrapaidís; chrapadh siad / gcrapaidís‡‡; gcrapadh siad‡‡ | a chrapadh / a gcrapadh* | chraptaí / gcraptaí‡‡ |
| future | crapfaidh mé; crapfad | crapfaidh tú; crapfair$^†$ | crapfaidh sé, sí | crapfaimid; crapfaidh muid | crapfaidh sibh | crapfaidh siad; crapfaid$^†$ | a chrapfaidh; a chrapfas / a gcrapfaidh* | crapfar |
| conditional | chrapfainn / gcrapfainn‡‡ | chrapfá / gcrapfá‡‡ | chrapfadh sé, sí / gcrapfadh sé, sí‡‡ | chrapfaimis; chrapfadh muid / gcrapfaimis‡‡; gcrapfadh muid‡‡ | chrapfadh sibh / gcrapfadh sibh‡‡ | chrapfaidís; chrapfadh siad / gcrapfaidís‡‡; gcrapfadh siad‡‡ | a chrapfadh / a gcrapfadh* | chrapfaí / gcrapfaí‡‡ |
| subjunctive |||||||||
| present | go gcrapa mé; go gcrapad$^†$ | go gcrapa tú; go gcrapair$^†$ | go gcrapa sé, sí | go gcrapaimid; go gcrapa muid | go gcrapa sibh | go gcrapa siad; go gcrapaid$^†$ | — | go gcraptar |
| past | dá gcrapainn | dá gcraptá | dá gcrapadh sé, sí | dá gcrapaimis; dá gcrapadh muid | dá gcrapadh sibh | dá gcrapaidís; dá gcrapadh siad | — | dá gcraptaí |
| imperative |||||||||
| – | crapaim | crap | crapadh sé, sí | crapaimis | crapaigí; crapaidh$^†$ | crapaidís | — | craptar |
* indirect relative † archaic or dialect form ‡‡ dependent form used with particles that trigger eclipsis

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### References

* ↑ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 26

### Further reading

* “crap”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
* Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “crapaid, crapaigid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
* Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “crapaim”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 191
* Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “crap”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

## Middle English
### Noun

crap
* Alternative form of crappe

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Slavic.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /krap/

### Noun

crap m (plural crapi)
* Cyprinus carpio; European carp, common carp

#### Declension
### References

* ↑ Paliga, Sorin (2024) An Etymological Dictionary of the Romanian Language, New York: Peter Lang, →ISBN, page 402

## Romansch
### Etymology

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### Pronunciation

* IPA: [krap]

### Noun

crap m (plural craps)
* rock, stone

### References

* “crap”, in Dicziunari Rumantsch Grischun (in German)

## Scots
### Etymology

From late Middle English crop

### Noun

crap (plural craps)
* Crop (and hence head, particularly of plants or top).

## Yola
### Etymology

From Middle English crap, from Old French crappe.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /krap/

### Noun

crap (plural crappès)
* Part of a faggot or bush, withered furze, cut, but not made into faggots.

### References

* Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 32