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==English==

===Etymology===
From {{af|en|crap|-y|id2=adjectival}}.

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|en|/ˈkɹæpi/|a=US}}
* {{audio|en|LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-crappy.wav|a=Southern England}}
* {{audio|en|LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-crappy.wav|a=US}}
* {{rhymes|en|æpi|s=2}}
* {{homophones|en|crappie}}

===Adjective===
{{en-adj|er}}

# {{lb|en|chiefly|North America|colloquial|mildly|vulgar}} Of very poor quality; unpleasant; distasteful.
#: {{ux|en|That is such a '''crappy''' car.}}
#: {{ux|en|The referee just made a really '''crappy''' call.}}
#: {{ux|en|The food there used to be good but now it's '''crappy'''.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2015|author=Zachary Petit|title=The Essential Guide to Freelance Writing|publisher=Penguin|isbn=9781599639079|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XiFjDwAAQBAJ&lpg=PT32&dq=%22content%20mill%22&hl=es&pg=PT31#v=onepage&q&f=false|text=Think of the '''content mill''' as a modern-day literary sweatshop—writers hunkering down at hot keyboards, plowing away at 3,000 word articles for, literally,  pennies. Content mills were born because someone figured out that by targeting popular search result terms, they could commission an army of '''crappy''' posts catering to these terms and dominate Google's results.}}
#* {{quote-journal|en|author=Jennifer Miller|title=Investing in Real Estate as Self-Care|magazine=w:The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/29/realestate/investing-self-care-real-estate-women.html|date=29-07-2022|passage=She took a leap in 2019 and bought an investment property, a duplex in Missoula, Mont., intending to live in one unit and rent the other. “It was the '''crappiest''' house on the block,” she said.}}
#* {{quote-journal|en|author=Elizabeth Paton|title=Will Shoppers Ever Care About the Destruction of the Planet?|magazine=w:The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/02/style/patagonia-documentary-sustainability.html|date=02-05-2024|passage=“Many scientists and historians think we’re entering into a new epoch — one where things are simply … well, '''crappier''',” declares the opening voice-over in a thick northern English accent (regularly used in Britain to indicate no-nonsense, tongue-in-cheek pragmatism).}}
# {{lb|en|chiefly|North America|colloquial|mildly|vulgar|especially with "feel"}} Bad, sick, or depressed.
#: {{ux|en|I'm feeling really '''crappy''' - I think I need some fresh air.}}
# {{lb|en|chiefly|North America|colloquial|mildly|vulgar}} Covered in [[crap]] ([[faeces]]/[[feces]]).
#: {{ux|en|Put the '''crappy''' diapers in the brown pail and the wet ones in the yellow pail.}}

====Alternative forms====
* {{l|en|crap}} {{lb|en|chiefly|UK}}

====Synonyms====
* {{sense|covered in crap}} {{l|en|shitty}}, {{l|en|poopy}}
* {{sense|of very poor quality}} {{l|en|shitty}}, {{l|en|lousy}}, {{l|en|tatty}}; see also [[Thesaurus:low-quality]]

====Derived terms====
{{col-auto|en|crappily|crappiness|craptop
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====Collocations====
{{co-top|with nouns}}
* crappy job
* crappy day
* crappy weather
* crappy thing
* crappy food
* crappy movie
* crappy apartment
* crappy life
* crappy service
* crappy mood
* crappy hotel
* crappy car
* crappy phone
* crappy town
* crappy product
* crappy attitude
* crappy software
* crappy household goods
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====Translations====
{{trans-top|of poor quality}}
* Chinese:
*: Cantonese: {{t|yue|差|tr=caa1}}
*: Mandarin: {{t+|cmn|爛|tr=làn}}
* Esperanto: {{t+|eo|aĉa}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|paska}} {{q|vulgar}}; {{t+|fi|surkea}}
* French: {{t+|fr|merdique}}, {{t+|fr|à chier}}, {{t+|fr|pourrave}}
* German: {{t+|de|beschissen}}, {{qualifier|euphemism}} {{t+|de|bescheiden}}
* Greek: {{t|el|του κώλου}}, {{t|el|για πέταμα}}
* Macedonian: {{t|mk|ска́пан}}, {{t|mk|га́ден}}, {{t|mk|о́двратен}}
* Norwegian:
*: Bokmål: {{t+|nb|ræva}}
* Polish: {{t|pl|badziewny}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|дерьмо́вый}}, {{t+|ru|сра́ный}}, {{t+|ru|говённый}}
* Swedish: {{t+|sv|kass}}, {{t+|sv|skitdålig}}, {{t+|sv|urusel}}, {{t+|sv|värdelös}}
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{{trans-top|bad, sick, or depressed}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|paska}} {{q|vulgar}}; {{t+|fi|surkea}}, {{t+|fi|kurja}}
* German: {{t+|de|beschissen}}, {{t+|de|mies}}, {{t+|de|scheiße}} {{qualifier|vulgar}}
* Macedonian: {{t|mk|по́сран}}
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{{trans-top|covered in, containing feces}}
* Danish: {{t|da|belortet}}
* Dutch: {{t+|nl|bekakt}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|paskainen}}, {{t|fi|paskassa}} {{q|vulgar}}; {{t|fi|ulosteessa}}
* German: {{t+|de|verkackt}}, {{t+|de|beschmutzt}} {{qualifier|euphemistic}}
* Greek: {{t+|el|χεσμένος}}
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{{C|en|Feces}}