crap
/kɹæp/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.40 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The long-running game show went from offering good prizes to crap in no time."
- ""My wife and I have asked a crowd of craps To come and waste their time and ours: perhaps You'd care to join us?""
- "The college student boasted of completing a 10,000-word essay on Shakespeare, but that claim was utter crap."
- "'Be seeing you.' 'Crap,' said the negro with conviction. 'Get goin'.'"
- "I stepped in some dog crap that was on the sidewalk."
- "I have to take a crap."
Etymology
Etymology tree Old Dutch krappender. Old French crappe Middle French crapebor. Middle English crappe English crap 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.