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crap

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4 lettersPronunciation /kɹæp/Part of speech verb, nounSorted acprStarts with CEnds with P0 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. have a bowel movement

Word origin

From Middle English crappe, also in plural: crappys, craps (“chaff; buckwheat”), from Middle French crape, from Old French crappe, crapin (“chaff”) (compare Medieval Latin crappa pl, also crapinum), from Old Dutch krappen (“to cut off, pluck off”) (whence Middle Dutch crappe, crap (“a chop, cutlet”), whence Dutch krip (“a steak”)). Related to crop.

Used in a sentence

  • The long-running game show went from offering good prizes to crap in no time.
  • "My wife and I have asked a crowd of craps To come and waste their time and ours: perhaps You'd care to join us?"
  • The college student boasted of completing a 10,000-word essay on Shakespeare, but that claim was utter crap.

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