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usually uncountable, plural craps
(obsolete) The husk of grain; chaff.
(slang, mildly vulgar, uncountable) Something worthless or of poor quality; junk.
(slang, mildly vulgar, uncountable) Nonsense; something untrue.
(slang, mildly vulgar) Faeces/feces.
(slang, mildly vulgar, countable) An act of defecation.
third-person singular simple present craps, present participle crapping, simple past and past participle crapped
(mildly vulgar, slang, intransitive) To defecate.
(mildly vulgar, slang, transitive) To defecate in or on (clothing etc.).
(India, mildly vulgar, slang, transitive) To bullshit.
comparative crapper, superlative crappest
(chiefly UK, Canada, US, colloquial, mildly vulgar) Of poor quality. examples
(slang, vulgar) Expression of worry, fear, shock, surprise, disgust, annoyance, or dismay.
plural craps
(gambling, dice games) A losing throw of 2, 3, or 12 in craps. examples
Attributive form of craps. quotations examples
To test the possibility that her husband’s luck was indestructible, Mary went to the crap tables and made a small bet.
1974, John Savage, The Winner’s Guide to Dice, New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, page 16
I step up to the least-crowded crap table, taking my place to the right of a country-and-western-type stickwoman with tightly permed blond hair who looks as if she would be more comfortable dressed in the square-dance outfit of the Frontier than wearing the chinoiserie, or maybe the japonaiserie, of her purple kimono uniform.
1992, Edward Allen, Mustang Sally, New York, N.Y., London: W. W. Norton & Company, page 72
Separately, you are playing in a crap game. The crap bets earn you $20,000 a year so long as rates stay put but could cost you a $100,000 or $200,000 loss if rates go up.
2014 December 29, William Baldwin, “Yield Games”, in Forbes, page 103