craps
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Noun [edit]
craps
- Plural form of crap
- (plural only) a game of gambling, or chance, where the players "roll" or throw dice to make scores and avoid crap
- 1920, Peter B. Kyne, The Understanding Heart, Chapter XII
- “As an inventor,” Bob Mason suggested, “you're a howling success at shooting craps ! If I were as free of spavins, ringbone, saddle-galls, and splints as you are, I'd have that nanny-goat in here, hog-tie her, flop her and let the boy help himself. […] ”
- 1920, Peter B. Kyne, The Understanding Heart, Chapter XII
- (plural only, slang, vulgar) diarrhea.
Verb [edit]
craps
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of crap.
