Definitions for craps

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Spelling: [kraps]

IPA: /kræps/

Craps is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 85 anagrams from letters in craps (acprs).

Definitions for craps

noun

1. a game in which two dice are thrown and in which a first throw of 7 or 11 wins, a first throw of 2, 3, or 12 loses, and a first throw of 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, or 10 can be won only by throwing the same number again before throwing a 7.
2. Vulgar. excrement. an act of defecation.
3. Slang: Sometimes Vulgar. nonsense; drivel. falsehood, exaggeration, propaganda, or the like.
4. refuse; rubbish; junk; litter:
5. (in craps) a losing throw, in which the total on the two dice is 2, 3, or 12.
6. craps.

Verb phrases

1. crap around, Slang: Sometimes Vulgar. to behave in a foolish or silly manner. to avoid work.
2. crap on, Slang: Sometimes Vulgar. to treat badly, especially by humiliating, insulting, or slighting. to cause misery, misfortune, or discomfort.
3. crap up, Slang: Sometimes Vulgar. to botch, ruin, or cheapen; make a mess of.
4. crap out, Also called seven out. (in the game of craps) to throw a 7 rather than make one's point. Slang. to abandon a project, activity, etc., because of fear, cowardice, exhaustion, loss of enthusiasm, etc. Slang. to break a promise or fail to fulfill a duty or obligation; renege.

verb (used with object)

1. Slang: Sometimes Vulgar. to talk nonsense to; attempt to deceive.

verb (used without object)

1. Vulgar. to defecate.

Origin of craps

1835-45, Americanism; apparently French craps, variant of crabs double-ace (lowest throw at hazard) crab¹

Examples for craps

craps was just too risky, and—in a far stretch—this was meant as a way to measure how my father would govern.

At craps, I fear, my hand in late years has lost much of its cunning.

The now practically obsolete game of Hazard was much more complicated than craps.

At craps, I fear, my hand in late years had lost much of its cunning.

craps, played by these free-handed sons of the open, had more of a punch than he had imagined possible.