crap

See also: CRAP and crăp

English

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /kɹæp/
  • Rhymes: -æp
  • Audio (US)(file)

Etymology 1

From Middle English crappe, also in plural: crappys, craps (“chaff; buckwheat”), from Middle French crape, from Old French crappe, crapin (“chaff”) (compare Medieval Latin crappa pl, also crapinum), from Old Dutch krappen (“to cut off, pluck off”) (whence Middle Dutch crappe, crap (“a chop, cutlet”), whence Dutch krip (“a steak”)). Related to crop.

Noun

crap (usually uncountable, plural craps)

  1. (obsolete) The husk of grain; chaff.
  2. (slang, mildly vulgar, uncountable) Something worthless or of poor quality; junk.
    The long-running game show went from offering good prizes to crap in no time.
  3. (slang, mildly vulgar, uncountable) Nonsense; something untrue.
    The college student boasted of completing a 10,000-word essay on Shakespeare, but that claim was utter crap.
  4. (slang, mildly vulgar) Faeces/feces.
    I stepped in some dog crap that was on the sidewalk.
  5. (slang, mildly vulgar, countable) An act of defecation.
    I have to take a crap.
Synonyms
  • (faeces): poop, poo, dump, shit, plump. Note: often used as a less vulgar synonym for, or minced form of, shit in all its senses.
Derived terms
Translations
husk of grain — see chaff

Verb

crap (third-person singular simple present craps, present participle crapping, simple past and past participle crapped)

  1. (mildly vulgar, slang, intransitive) To defecate.
    That soup tasted funny, and now I need to crap.
  2. (mildly vulgar, slang, transitive) To defecate in or on (clothing etc.).
    He almost crapped his pants from fright.
  3. (India, mildly vulgar, slang, transitive) To bullshit.
    Don't try to crap me: I know you're lying.
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Adjective

crap (comparative crapper, superlative crappest)

  1. (chiefly UK, Canada, US, colloquial, mildly vulgar) Of poor quality.
    I drove an old crap car for ten years before buying a new one.
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Interjection

crap

  1. (slang, vulgar) Expression of worry, fear, shock, surprise, disgust, annoyance, or dismay.
    Oh crap! The other driver's going to hit my car!
    Crap! I lost the game.
    What the crap?!
    Aw, crap, I have to start over again from the beginning of the level.
Translations

Etymology 2

From crab's eyes.

Noun

crap (plural craps)

  1. (gambling, dice games) A losing throw of 2, 3, or 12 in craps.
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Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish crapaid.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /kɾˠapˠ/
  • (Ulster) IPA(key): /kɾˠʌpˠ/[1] (corresponding to the alternative form crup)

Verb

crap (present analytic crapann, future analytic crapfaidh, verbal noun crapadh, past participle craptha)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) to shrink ((cause to) become smaller), constrict (to narrow)
  2. (intransitive) to contract (draw together, shorten, lessen)
  3. (transitive) to crumple (cause to collapse)
  4. to purse (press (the lips) together)
  5. to roll up (make into a cylindrical or fold-like shape)

Conjugation
First Conjugation (A)
singular plural relative autonomous
first second third first second third
indicative present crapaim crapann tú;
crapair†		 crapann sé, sí crapaimid crapann sibh crapann siad;
crapaid†		 a chrapann; a chrapas /
a gcrapann*; a gcrapas*		 craptar
past chrap mé; chrapas chrap tú; chrapais chrap sé, sí chrapamar; chrap muid chrap sibh; chrapabhair chrap siad; chrapadar a chrap /
ar chrap*		 crapadh
past habitual chrapainn / gcrapainn‡‡ chraptá / gcraptᇇ chrapadh sé, sí / gcrapadh sé, s퇇 chrapaimis; chrapadh muid / gcrapaimis‡‡; gcrapadh muid‡‡ chrapadh sibh / gcrapadh sibh‡‡ chrapaidís; chrapadh siad / gcrapaidís‡‡; gcrapadh siad‡‡ a chrapadh /
a gcrapadh*		 chraptaí / gcrapta퇇
future crapfaidh mé;
crapfad		 crapfaidh tú;
crapfair†		 crapfaidh sé, sí crapfaimid;
crapfaidh muid		 crapfaidh sibh crapfaidh siad;
crapfaid†		 a chrapfaidh; a chrapfas /
a gcrapfaidh*; a gcrapfas*		 crapfar
conditional chrapfainn / gcrapfainn‡‡ chrapfá / gcrapfᇇ chrapfadh sé, sí / gcrapfadh sé, s퇇 chrapfaimis; chrapfadh muid / gcrapfaimis‡‡; gcrapfadh muid‡‡ chrapfadh sibh / gcrapfadh sibh‡‡ chrapfaidís; chrapfadh siad / gcrapfaidís‡‡; gcrapfadh siad‡‡ a chrapfadh /
a gcrapfadh*		 chrapfaí / gcrapfa퇇
subjunctive present go gcrapa mé;
go gcrapad†		 go gcrapa tú;
go gcrapair†		 go gcrapa sé, sí go gcrapaimid;
go gcrapa muid		 go gcrapa sibh go gcrapa siad;
go gcrapaid†		 — go gcraptar
past dá gcrapainn dá gcraptá dá gcrapadh sé, sí dá gcrapaimis;
dá gcrapadh muid		 dá gcrapadh sibh dá gcrapaidís;
dá gcrapadh siad		 — dá gcraptaí
imperative crapaim crap crapadh sé, sí crapaimis crapaigí;
crapaidh†		 crapaidís — craptar
verbal noun crapadh
past participle craptha

* Indirect relative
† Archaic or dialect form
‡‡ Dependent form used with particles that trigger eclipsis

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
crap chrap gcrap
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
  1. Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 26

Further reading

Middle English

Noun

crap

  1. Alternative form of crappe

Romanian

Etymology

From Serbo-Croatian krap and Bulgarian крап (krap).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /krap/

Noun

crap m (plural crapi)

  1. Cyprinus carpio; European carp, common carp

Declension
Declension of crap
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) crap crapul (niște) crapi crapii
genitive/dative (unui) crap crapului (unor) crapi crapilor
vocative crapule crapilor

Romansch

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [krap]

Noun

crap m (plural craps)

  1. stone

Scots

Noun

crap (plural craps)

  1. Crop (and hence head, particularly of plants or top).

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English crap, from Old French crappe.

Noun

crap (plural crapès or crappès)

  1. Part of a faggot or bush, withered furze, cut, but not made into faggots.

References
  • Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 32
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