crap

1 of 4

verb (1)

ˈkrap 

crapped; crapping

intransitive verb

informal + impolite

: defecate

crap

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noun (1)

1

a

informal + impolite : feces

b

informal + impolite : the act of defecating

2

informal + impolite : nonsense, rubbish

also : stuff sense 4b

crap

3 of 4

noun (2)

1

—used as an attributive form of craps

a crap game

a crap table

2

: a throw of 2, 3, or 12 in the game of craps losing the shooter's bet unless they have a point

called also craps

compare natural entry 2 sense 3a

crap

4 of 4

verb (2)

crapped; crapping

intransitive verb

1

: to throw a crap

2

: to throw a seven while trying to make a point

—usually used with out

Examples of crap in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Verb

Investors in SpaceX are doing what craps players call betting on the come. — Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2026

Residents of the Altamonte Springs neighborhood of Spring Oaks reported finding human feces on vehicles, mailboxes and in yards before surveillance video pointed the finger at her as the crapping bandit. — Sean Joseph Outkick, FOXNews.com, 29 Apr. 2026

Noun

Welcome to a Hump Day Nightcaps — the one where 23 college football players get slapped with a Saturday detention for beating the crap out of each other after last week's game. — Zach Dean Outkick, FOXNews.com, 11 Nov. 2026

And there are hundreds of billions of lines of code out there that are not the Linux kernel, that are the crap C# and J2E code that was written by Infosys 15 years ago. — Nilay Patel, The Verge, 7 Nov. 2026

Word History

Etymology

Noun (1) and Verb (1)

British dialect crap, craps residue from rendered fat, from Middle English crappe, perhaps from Old French crappe chaff, residue, from Medieval Latin crappa

Noun (2)

singular of craps

First Known Use

Verb (1)

1846, in the meaning defined above

Noun (1)

1823, in the meaning defined at sense 1a

Noun (2)

1843, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Verb (2)

1894, in the meaning defined at sense 2

Rhymes for crap

• app
• cap
• chap
• clap
• flap
• frap
• gap
• hap
• lap
• nap
• nappe
• pap