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The correct spelling is craps.

How to pronounce craps

/kɹæps/
noun

IPA: /kɹæps/

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The correct spelling is craps. A game of gambling, or chance, where the players throw dice to make scores and avoid crap. For example: "The long-running game show went from offering good prizes to crap in no time."

Usage Examples

The long-running game show went from offering good prizes to crap in no time.

The college student boasted of completing a 10,000-word essay on Shakespeare, but that claim was utter crap.

I stepped in some dog crap that was on the sidewalk.

Meanings

noun

  1. 1.A game of gambling, or chance, where the players throw dice to make scores and avoid crap.
  2. 2.The husk of grain; chaff.
  3. 3.(mildly) Something worthless or of poor quality; junk.
  4. 4.(mildly) Nonsense; something untrue.
  5. 5.(mildly) Faeces/feces.

verb

  1. 1.To defecate.
  2. 2.To defecate in or on (clothing etc.).
  3. 3.To bullshit.

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