Definitions
Wiktionary
- adj. Intended to be perceived as spectacular, but actually perceived as extremely poor quality.
- adj. Spectacularly awful; so poor in quality as to become a spectacle.
Examples
“How can you call it "craptacular" when there hasn't been ANY actual footage from the movie released?”
““Friday the 13th Part 8: Jason Takes Manhattan” was the last movie made by Paramount and I guess they wanted to go out in craptacular style.”
“Link to NetSmartz Kids site, here's the section of the site with anti-filesharing instructional materials, and here's the video in craptacular WMV, natch. (thanks, RV)”
“San Francisco: Overrated or just plain craptacular?”
“In the Register, an interesting piece on Orkut's terms of service, which danah previously criticized, and Cory described here as "craptacular":”
“Other expressions made famous by the US animated series since its launch two decades ago include "craptacular," "eat my shorts" and the dismissive "Meh," according to the survey of”
“Unfortunately, although it got pretty good reviews, I honestly thought it was kind of craptacular, so I'm not putting up the video of it.”
“Note that the focus here is to exclude from the exceptions documents/materials made purely or primarily for advertising purposes; hence even the most craptacular, irrelevant book on the market today would still qualify for the customs duty exemption, as long as its plot was more than: Kim buys a Coca-cola, opens it, and finds happiness.”
On the Great Book Blockade of 2009 (Updated 7 May) (with BDAP Paper) « BAHAY TALINHAGA
“That is the most craptacular piece of art in awhile.”
“The Democratic Party still contains a lot of the elements that led to its craptacular 2000 and 2004 performances.”
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[Open] Perfectly Cromulent Words
Cite the episode, if you like. If you can provide a quotation, even better.
cromulent, embiggen, elephant fresh, craptacular, spankological, retirony
gmupipe used by the Howard Stern Show to promote their move to Sirius Satelite Radio in 2005. It was the name of a contest between to "whack packers" (High Pitch Eric and Joey Boots) to see whom who could crap the most in 24hrs. It is generally recognised as the first programming on the Howard 100 channel. Sep 21, 2009
bbmiller It's made-up, I know, but SO useful. Dec 7, 2006