Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Excrement.
- n. An act of defecating.
- n. Foolish, deceitful, or boastful language.
- n. Cheap or shoddy material.
- n. Miscellaneous or disorganized items; clutter.
- n. Insolent talk or behavior.
- v. To defecate.
- interj. Used to express anger or displeasure.
- crap up To make a mess of; bungle.
- n. See craps.
- n. A losing first throw in the game of craps.
- v. To make a losing throw in the game of craps. Usually used with out.
- crap out Slang To fail to keep a commitment or promise: crapped out on me when I needed him.
- crap out Slang To fail to function properly: The old TV crapped out again.
- crap out Slang To leave: crapped out of the meeting early.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The highest part or top of anything.
- n. The crop or craw of a fowl: used ludicrously for a man's stomach.
- n. A crop of grain.
- To raise a crop.
- n. Darnel.
- n. Buckwheat.
- n. A throw with dice; especially, a losing cast in the game of craps, when the total of pips on the two dice is 2, 3, or 12. See craps.
Wiktionary
- n. The husk of grain; chaff.
- n. Something of poor quality.
- n. Something that is rubbish; nonsense.
- n. Faeces or feces; a euphemism for shit.
- n. Useless object, sometimes used as a plural
- n. A losing throw of 2, 3 or 12 in craps
- v. To defecate.
- adj. Of poor quality.
- interj. Expression of worry, fear, shock, surprise, disgust, annoyance or dismay.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. In the game of craps, a first throw of the dice in which the total is two, three, or twelve, in which case the caster loses. Also called
craps . - n. same as excrement and feces.
- n. nonsense; balderdash; bullshit; -- also used as an expletive.
- v. to defecate. Same as take a crap.
WordNet 3.0
- n. obscene terms for feces
- n. obscene words for unacceptable behavior
- v. have a bowel movement
Etymologies
- Middle English crappe, chaff, from Old French crappe, from Medieval Latin crappa, perhaps of Germanic origin.Back-formation from craps.
Examples
“The “stars and bars” south will rise again crap is mostly heard only from drunken, lower class, white males.”
“This Hussein crap is awful Ben, and no different than Republican swiftboat rhetoric.”
“Yeah, all that compliance with the constitution crap is code for throwing out the constitution ... right Huffington ...”
“Hmmm ... i hear you and a lot of times i wonder what the crap is about!”
“This crap is also why L.A. is the worst in the country and quite possibly the world.”
“All this crap is ancient, useless management-babble, with nothing new in it.”
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“Maybe we need less news if this crap is the best these lame networks can come up with.”
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“We're lucky if the "multiplier" on this crap is as big as 1.0.”
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“That amnesia crap is the major weakness of the novel — followed by other minor weaknesses, like clunky point of view shifts, the pretentious fairy-tale tone of the climax, the overkill of similes and adjectives in general.”
“All of these posts are very observant, but meaningless because scrutinizing this crap is the same as as having dialogue about a TV show being reality.”
hernesheir "To fill; to stuff. Hence, crappit heads, the heads of haddocks stuffed with a pudding made of the roe, oatmeal, and spiceries; formerly an accompaniment to fish and sauce in Scotland." --Dr. Jamieson's Scottish Dictionary and Supplement, 1841. Jun 1, 2011
hernesheir "The grain put at once on a kiln to be dried." --Dr. Jamieson's Scottish Dictionary and Supplement, 1841. Jun 1, 2011
hernesheir Century Dictionary's 5th entry defines crap as the highest part or top of any thing. Dr. Jamieson's Scottish Dictionary and Supplement, 1841, offers these phrases: "The crap of the earth", the surface of the ground; "the crap of a fishing-wand", the top or uppermost section of a fishing-rod. In the Scots Buchan dialect the cones of fir trees are called fir-craps. Jun 1, 2011
hernesheir Century Dictionary's 6th entry correctly defines crap as buckwheat.
Buck wheat, called in some counties crap --definition from Grose's (1787) A Provincial Glossary. Recorded in Essex, Suffolk, and Norfolk. May 4, 2011
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chained_bear Well... I think that's an apocryphal connection, though there was a Thomas Crapper. You may be right. I'm not the one who's going to research it though. Oct 15, 2008
gangerh I've always assumed its modern meaning is derived from the famous WC designer and manufacturer Thomas Crapper. Oct 15, 2008
chained_bear Interestingly (maybe only to me), the coarse slang meaning of this word only came about (according to the OED) in the last years of the nineteenth century. For about six hundred years before that, it didn't mean poop at all.
"Identical with earlier Du. krappe ‘carptus, carptura, res decerpta, frustum decerptum siue abscissum, pars abrasa siue abscissa; pars carnis abscissa; crustum; offella, offula; placenta; pulpamentum’ (Kilian, 1599), connected with krappen to pluck off, cut off, separate. Cf. also F. crape, OF. crappe siftings, also ‘the grain trodden under feet in the barn, and mingled with the straw and dust’ (M. L. Delisle in Godef.), med.L. crappa in Du Cange. (Cf. also crapinum the smaller chaff.) In mod.F. the word has taken the sense of ‘dirt, filth’, and ‘grease of a millstone’. It is doubtful whether all the senses here placed belong to one word, though a common notion of ‘rejected or left matter, residue, dregs, dust’ runs through them." Oct 15, 2008