crapshoot
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See also: crap-shoot and crap shoot
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
crapshoot (plural crapshoots)
Quotations[edit]
- 1951, August 11, Bill Smith, The Billboard, article El Rancho Gets Mucho Puncho as Middleton, Robbins Go Over Big, page 3:
- The audience, mixed up between corny tourists and the crap-shooting hepsters, yocked it up to make Robbins a solid hit.
- 1971, September 10, Thomas Thompson, LIFE, article The Crapshoot for Half a Billion, page 47:
- … the new television season—the event called more bluntly “the half-billion-dollar crapshoot” by those who have made it and who now await blessing or malediction …
- 2001, Joyce Carol Oates, Middle Age : A Romance, paperback edition, Fourth Estate, page 163:
- What a crapshoot, fatherhood. I played, and fucked it.
- 2003, The West Wing, episode 5-04 Han:
- The negotiations are a crapshoot. Whole damn job's a crapshoot.
Translations[edit]
craps game
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risky venture
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