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Definition: Crap |
CrapNoun1. Obscene terms for feces. 2. A ludicrously false statement. Verb1. 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) |
| Domain | Definition |
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. | |
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- Craps, a game of dice
- Faeces (excrement)
- Scatology and toilet humour
- Quality control
- Thomas Crapper
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| 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. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
CRAP | English | Confirmation,Renewals,Approvals,Procedures | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: CrapSynonyms: 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) |
| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
Crosswords: Crap |
| English words defined with "crap": floating. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "crap": crapplet ♦ TCPIP. (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). |
| Domain | Usage | |
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. | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & 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. | |||
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| "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. | |
| Speaker | Phrase(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. | |
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 90.51% | 495 | 12,127 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 4.2% | 23 | 72,767 |
| Adverb (general) | 2.37% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 1.46% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 1.09% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.36% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 547 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
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. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency 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. | |||
| 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. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Medieval Latin | 700-1500 | crappa, crapinum. (various references) |
| Middle English | 1100-1500 | crappe. (various references) |
| Middle French | 1400-1600 | crape. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
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). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "crap" (pronounced kra"p) |
| 4 | k r a" p | scrap. |
| 3 | -r a" p | entrap, frap, rap, strap, trap, unwrap, wrap. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
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. | |
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