crapshoot

See also: crap-shoot and crap shoot

English

Etymology

From crap +‎ shoot.

Pronunciation

• Audio (US):

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Noun

crapshoot (plural crapshoots)

1. A game of craps.
2. (US, figurative) A venture with a highly risky or unpredictable outcome.

   Synonym: roll of the dice

   • 2013, Lisa McMann, Don't Close Your Eyes: Wake, Fade, Gone, New York, N.Y.: Simon Pulse, →ISBN, page 604:

     "Well, yeah, I can see that. It's not like he lives in the 'hood, yadamean? Who comes way out here? It'd be a real crapshoot. People out here'd either pull a gun on you or invite you for pot roast."

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:crapshoot.

Translations

craps game

• Dutch: dobbelspel (nl)

risky venture

• Finnish: upporikas ja rutiköyhä (usually in the partitive singular)
• French: coup de poker (fr) m
• Korean: 복불복 (ko) (bokbulbok)
• Polish: loteria (pl) f
• Spanish: lotería (es) f