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  • adjective slang of very low quality.

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crap +‎ -o

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  • Derogatory for a seaman of the French whaling fleet.

    "There's a pretty fellow, now," he banteringly laughed, standing in the ship's bows, "there's a jackal for ye! I well know that these Crappoes of Frenchmen are but poor devils in the fishery..."

    - Melville, Moby-Dick, ch. 91

    July 29, 2008

  • Oh dear.

    July 29, 2008

  • crapeaux, surely.

    July 29, 2008

  • Crapeaux are really bad French hats, n'est ce pas?

    July 29, 2008

  • perhaps from crapaud--"toad"--seeing as 'frog' is a common French slur.

    June 15, 2009

  • One of the less known Marx brothers, perhaps?

    August 27, 2009