crap
Part of speech: noun
verb
adj
intj
Morphological type: simple
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.
Inflected forms:
form: craps
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: craps
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: crapping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: crapped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: crapped
pos: verb
tags: past
form: crapper
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: crappest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: crappy
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Canada
US
Senses:
gloss: The husk of grain; chaff.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
uncountable
usually
gloss: Something worthless or of poor quality; junk.
pos: noun
tags: mildly
slang
uncountable
usually
vulgar
examples: The long-running game show went from offering good prizes to crap in no time.
"My wife and I have asked a crowd of craps
To come and waste their time and ours: perhaps
You'd care to join us?"
gloss: Nonsense; something untrue.
pos: noun
tags: mildly
slang
uncountable
usually
vulgar
examples: The college student boasted of completing a 10,000-word essay on Shakespeare, but that claim was utter crap.
gloss: Feces.
pos: noun
tags: mildly
slang
uncountable
usually
vulgar
examples: I stepped in some dog crap that was on the sidewalk.
gloss: An act of defecation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
mildly
slang
usually
vulgar
examples: I have to take a crap.
gloss: To defecate.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
mildly
slang
vulgar
examples: That soup tasted funny, and now I need to crap.
'Well, the case is all yours,' said Binswanger grudgingly. 'But the Commissioner sure don't like having this bastard crappin' away on his own front doorstep while Mr Hoover sits down in Washington well to leeward of the stink. Why don't we pull him in on tax evasion or misuse of the mails or parkin' in front of a hydrant or sumpn? Take him down to the Tombs and give 'em the works? If the Feds won't do it, we'd be glad to oblige.'
gloss: To defecate in or on (clothing etc.).
pos: verb
tags: mildly
slang
transitive
vulgar
examples: He almost crapped his pants from fright.
gloss: To bullshit.
pos: verb
tags: India
mildly
slang
transitive
vulgar
examples: Don't try to crap me: I know you're lying.
gloss: Of poor quality.
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
mildly
vulgar
examples: I drove an old crap car for ten years before buying a new one.
gloss: Expression of worry, fear, shock, surprise, disgust, annoyance, or dismay.
pos: intj
tags: mildly
slang
vulgar
examples: 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.
Synonyms: poo
dump
crud
shit. Note: often used as a less vulgar synonym for
or minced form of
shit in all its senses
bullshit
Derived words: 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
crap hat
craphat
craphead
crapheap
craphole
craphouse
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
crap around
crap on
crap oneself
crap one's pants
crap something out
crap up
does a bear crap in the woods
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