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Sense: 1-6
| Date: | 1800-1900 |
| Origin: | crap 'outside covering of grain, solid material from melted fat' (15-19 centuries), from Middle Dutch crappe 'piece torn off', from crappen 'to break off' |
| Date: | 1700-1800 |
| Language: | Louisiana French |
| Origin: | French crabs, craps, from English crabs 'lowest throw in a dice game', from the plural of CRAB |
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crap1
spoken not polite
spoken not polite1 [uncountable] something someone says that you think is completely wrong or untrue [= rubbish]:
• You don't believe all that crap, do you?
load/pile of crap also bunch of crap American English
• That's a bunch of crap! I never said that.
• He came out with a load of crap about how he'd tried to call me yesterday.
cut the crap (=used to tell someone to stop saying things that are completely wrong)
• Just cut the crap and tell me what really happened.
2 [uncountable] something that is very bad or is of bad quality [= rubbish]:
• They sell a lot of stuff cheap, but most of it is crap.
load/pile of crap also bunch of crap American English
• The game was a load of crap.
3 [uncountable] things that are useless or unimportant :
• What is all this crap doing on my desk?
4 [uncountable] bad or unfair treatment
take/stand for/put up with crap (=to allow someone to treat you badly)
• I'm not going to take any more of this crap!
• I don't need this kind of crap (=used when you are angry about the way someone is behaving towards you).
5 [uncountable] solid waste that is passed from your bowels
6 [singular] the act of passing solid waste from your bowels
7 a game played for money in the US, using two dice
craps
[plural] American English shoot craps (=to play this game)
