Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.

Crap

Definition: Crap

Crap

Noun

1. Obscene terms for feces.

2. A ludicrously false statement.

Verb

1. Have a bowel movement; "The dog had made in the flower beds".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "crap" was first used: 1846. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: Crap

DomainDefinition

Multilingual Slang

Czech (hovno), Finnish (paskan marjat), Galician (merda), Italian (merdoso), Spanish (moco de caca), Swedish (jidder, skit, skita), Ukrainian (hivno, kaka). (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Top     

Specialty Definition: Crap

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

See: This is a disambiguation page; that is, one that just points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name. If you followed a link here, you might want to go back and fix that link to point to the appropriate specific page.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Crap."

Top     

Abbreviations & Acronyms: Crap

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField

CRAP

EnglishConfirmation,Renewals,Approvals,ProceduresN/A

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Top     

Synonyms: Crap

Synonyms: bull (n), bullshit (n), buncombe (n), bunk (n), bunkum (n), dirt (n), dogshit (n), guff (n), hogwash (n), horseshit (n), poop (n), rot (n), shit (n), shite (n), turd (n), ca-ca (v), defecate (v), make (v), take a crap (v), take a shit (v). (additional references)

Top     

Synonyms within Context: Crap

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Excretion

Noun: excretion, discharge, emanation; exhalation, exudation, extrusion, secretion, effusion, extravasation, ecchymosis; evacuation, dejection, faeces, excrement, stools, crap; bloody flux; cacation; coeliac-flux, coeliac-passion; dysentery; perspiration, sweat; subation, exudation; diaphoresis; sewage; eccrinology.

Uncleanness

Spawn, offal, gurry; lientery; garbage, carrion; excreta; slough, peccant humor, pus, matter, suppuration, lienteria; faeces, feces, excrement, ordure, dung, crap, sewage, sewerage; muck; coprolite; guano, manure, compost.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Top     

Crosswords: Crap

English words defined with "crap": floating. (references)
Specialty definitions using "crap": crappletTCPIP. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Crap" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Romanian (carp), Romansch (stone), Welsh (hold, smattering).

Top     

Modern Usage: Crap

DomainUsage

Screenplays

I was taking a crap. (The Sting; writing credit: David S. Ward)

Everyone knows dairies are justfull of crap. (Bridget Jones's Diary; writing credit: Helen Fielding)

You're way out there, boss, taking a crap in the wind, and I for one am not going along on this ride (JFK; writing credit: Jim Marrs; Jim Garrison)

I crap bigger than you. (City Slickers; writing credit: Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel, and Billy Crystal)

Yeah I called her up, she gave me a bunch of crap about me not listening to her, or something, I don't know, I wasn't really paying attention (Dumb & Dumber; writing credit: Peter Farrelly; Bennett Yellin)

Lyrics

We all know that Crap is King (Dirty Laundry; performing artist: Don Henley)

There wasn't none of that crap back in 1970 (AM Radio; performing artist: Everclear)

On all the crap I learned in high school (Kodachrome; performing artist: Paul Simon; writing credit: Paul Simon)

Forget that Roswell crap ("Men in Black"; performing artist: Will Smith)

Movie/TV Titles

The Tramp and the Crap Game (1900)

An Interrupted Crap Game (1899)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Top     

Commercial Usage: Crap

DomainTitle

Books

  

Theater & Movies

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Top     

Photo Album: Crap

ThumbnailDescription & CreditThumbnailDescription & Credit

Crap game. Las Vegas. Nevada. Credit: Library of Congress.

Shooting crap at American Legion fish fry, Oldham County, Post 39, near Louisville, Kentucky. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Top     

Digital Photo Gallery: Crap
 

"Restaurant crap" by Ariel C.
Commentary: "Restaurant crap."
"Some kind of Tillman" by Kelly Abbott
Commentary: "Crap, man. Just keep piling higher."

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

Top     

Spoken Usage: Crap

SpeakerPhrase(s)

David Letterman

Well, that's very sweet of her to say. I think it's probably a load of crap, but it's very sweet for her to have said that. We would love to have Hillary on the show. We would love to have her husband Tubby on the show.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Top     

Usage Frequency: Crap

"Crap" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 90.51% of the time. "Crap" is used about 547 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)90.51%49512,127
Adjective (general or positive)4.2%2372,767
Adverb (general)2.37%1397,576
Lexical Verb (base form)1.46%8124,375
Lexical Verb (infinitive)1.09%6143,867
Noun (proper)0.36%2245,945
                    Total100.00%547N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

Top     

Expression: Crap

Expressions using "crap": crap game crap out Crap shooting crap up have a crap take a crap what a load of crap. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "crap": crap-heap, crap-shooter.

Ending with "crap": art-crap.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Top     

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Crap

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

crap

1,122

crap wrestling

7

funny crap

118

counter crap

7

crap game

73

crap weird

7

crap table

33

crap strategy

6

free crap

23

crap mindless

6

holy crap

20

crap funny more

6

crap picture

18

take a crap

6

dog crap

16

crap talker

6

roulette black jack crap

16

cat crap

6

crazy crap

15

art crap

5

crap taking

15

crap piece

5

crap stupid

14

cool crap

5

crap star

12

crap joke

5

crap rule

10

crap rate

5

crap wrestle

9

play crap

4

rap is crap

9

crap pic

4

car crap

8

crap shirt t

4

crap installing permission suck toolbar without

8

useless crap

4

random crap

8

crap pile

4

free crap game

7

crap girl

4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Top     

Modern Translation: Crap

Language Translations for "crap"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

pleh (carrion, dressing, fertilizer, muck, ordure), ndyrësirë (poop, rotter, turd), ndyrësi (dirt, dirtiness, enormity, filth, filthiness, muck, ordure, piggishness, salacity), në kar, mut (dregs, poop, turd), mëllef (poop, turd), gjepura (apple sauce, balderdash, baloney, blague, blether, boloney, bosh, bunco, buncombe, bunk, bunko, claptrap, drivel, drool, eyewash, fiddledeedee, fiddle-faddle, fiddlesticks, flam, flannel, flapdoodle, flimflam, flubdub, footle, galimatias, gammon, hog-wash, hokum, humbug, jazz, jiggery pokery, moonshine, nonsense, palaver, piffle, poppycock, punk, rot, rubbish, stuff and nonsense, taradiddle, tosh, trash, twaddle, vacuity, waffle, wish-wash), broçkull (humbug, piffle). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏حماقة (blindness, brainlessness, brutishness, doltishness, dumbness, emptiness, fatuity, fatuousness, fat-wittedness, feeblemindedness, folly, foolery, gaffe, hankey-pankey, hanky panky, idiocy, imbecility, insanity, nonsense, rot, silliness, stupidity, thick-wittedness, tomfoolery, unwisdom, weak-mindedness), ‏الكريب قماش رقيق. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

сбор от зарове, ходене по нужда, глупости (all my eye, applesauce, balderdash, baloney, blague, blah, bleat, blether, boloney, bosh, bull, buncombe, cod, drivel, eyewash, fiddle-faddle, fiddlesticks, flapdoodle, footle, fudge, guff, gup, hokum, humbug, jiggery pokery, junk, kibosh, monkey business, monkeybusiness, nonsense, nuts, piffle, poppycock, punk, rhubarb, rot, rubbish, shucks, slush, stuff and nonsense, tack, tommy rot, truck, trumpery). (various references)

   

Czech

  

kecy (baloney, claptrap, codswallop, hot air, spiel), hovno, blbost (balls, bull, bunk, garbage, stupidity). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

نوعی قمار, چرند (Baloney, Bilk, Corny, Hokum, Inane, Jive, Ludicrous, Nonsensical, Rigmarole, Shenanigan, Silly, Stuff, Trashy, Unmeaning, Windy), قماربازی کردن (Gaff), گندم سیاه (Buckwheat, Rye), تفاله (Bagasse, Dross, Ross, Scum, Slag, Slop), تلخه , دیلار (Buckwheat), بدارزدن . (various references)

   

French

  

connerie, tissu de crêpe, merde, foutaise, débiter des conneries. (various references)

   

German

  

Mist (blow, bother, cobblers, droppings, dung, fertilizer, garbage, manure, muck, punk, rats, rubbish, shucks, trash, tripe). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

σκατά. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

cókmók (bag and baggage, belongings, clobber, doings, duds, goods and chattels, kit, paraphernalia, traps), link duma (blah, bunk), badarság (all my eye, bilge, bushwa, drool, gas, guff, hoo-ha, nonsense, piffle, rot), duma (blurb, duma, gas, jaw, moonshine, mumbo-jumbo, pitch, rap, spiel, that's all hot air), faszság, gané (grunch, grunge, gunk), hülyeség (bosh, idiocy, imbecility, nonsense, rot, stupidity), hadova, ökörség (bilge), hazugság (bang, crack, cracker, falsehood, lie, mendacity, prevarication, story, untruth), trutymó (grunch, grunge, gunge, gunk, yuck, yuk), móka (Dido, drollery, fun, game, joke, jollity, pantaloonery, skylark, waggishness), marhaság (bunk, imbecility, poppycock, rot, tosh), mellébeszélés (circumlocution, equivocation), motyó (plunder), piszok (black, bleeding, blemish, crock, dirt, dreck, filth, grime, grunch, grunge, gunk, muck, scuz, scuzz, smudge), ragacs (goo, putty), szarás, trutyi (grunch, grunge, gunge, gunk, scuz, scuzz, yuk), hanta (balderdash, rant, rigmarole, spiel). (various references)

   

Manx

  

keck (droppings, dung, excrement, faeces, ordure). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

apcray.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

trigo sarraceno (buckwheat). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

câcat (turd), pulãrie, defecta (damage, deteriorate, spoil). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

гречиха (buckwheat, Saracen corn), виселица (gallows, gallows-trees, gibbet), осадок от пива, дерьмо (scumbag). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

sranje, koještarija (baloney, bilge, buncombe, bunk, bunko, cobbler, humbug, moonshine, nonsense, rigmarole, rot). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

cagar, cagada (balls up, poop, turd), mierda (muck, poop, sod it), estupideces (trash). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

skitprat (kibosh). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

sıçmak (have a crap), pislik (contamination, crud, dinginess, dirt, dirtiness, excrement, excreta, faecal matter, faeces, feculence, filth, filthiness, foulness, gook, griminess, impurity, jerk, mess, mire, muck, nastiness, offscourings, ordure, pollution, scum, scurvy, smear, smut, soil, sordidness, squalor, uncleanliness), bok (dung, excrement, faecal matter, faeces, turd), çerçöp (brushwood, dirt, offal, offscourings, trash), ıvır zıvır (chaff, dead wood, flotsam, flotsam and jetsam, gadget, gadgetry, gadgety, gewgaw, Gubbins, junk, knick knack, knickknack, nicknack, odds and ends, rubbish, small potatoes, trifles, trinket, trinkets). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

гречка (buckwheat), осадок від пива. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Top     

Ancestral Language Translations: Crap

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Medieval Latin700-1500

crappa, crapinum. (various references)

Middle English1100-1500

crappe. (various references)

Middle French1400-1600

crape. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Top     

Derivations: Crap

Derivations

Words beginning with "crap": crape, craped, crapes, craping, crapped, crapper, crappers, crappie, crappier, crappies, crappiest, crapping, crappy, craps, crapshoot, crapshooter, crapshooters, crapshoots, crapulous. (additional references)

Words ending with "crap": scrap. (additional references)

Words containing "crap": scrapbook, scrapbooks, scrape, scraped, scraper, scrapers, scrapes, scrapheap, scrapheaps, scrapie, scrapies, scraping, scrapings, scrappage, scrappages, scrapped, scrapper, scrappers, scrappier, scrappiest, scrappily, scrappiness, scrappinesses, scrapping, scrapple, scrapples, scrappy, scraps, skyscraper, skyscrapers. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Top     

Rhyming with "Crap"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "crap" (pronounced kra"p)
4k r a" pscrap.
3-r a" pentrap, frap, rap, strap, trap, unwrap, wrap.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Top     

Anagrams: Crap

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: carp.

Words within the letters "a-c-p-r"

-1 letter: arc, cap, car, pac, par, rap.

-2 letters: ar, pa.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-p-r"
 

+1 letter: caper, carpi, carps, copra, cramp, crape, craps, pacer, parch, recap, scarp, scrap.

 

+2 letters: apercu, camper, capers, capper, capric, capris, captor, carhop, carpal, carped, carpel, carper, carpet, carpus, cartop, coppra, coprah, copras, cramps, craped, crapes, crappy, eparch, escarp, pacers, packer, parcel, parsec, picara, picaro, piracy, placer, prance, preach, preact, recaps, redcap, repack, scarph, scarps, scrape, scraps, secpar, spacer.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

Top     



INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Images: Digital Art
8. Quotations: Spoken
9. Usage Frequency
10. Expressions
11. Expressions: Internet
12. Translations: Modern
13. Translations: Ancient
14. Abbreviations
15. Acronyms
16. Derivations
17. Rhymes
18. Anagrams
19. Bibliography


  

Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.