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Added 9 October 2026

crap

/kɹæp/ noun

In Latin: cacō Wiktionary

noun Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA). Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about crap at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

The husk of grain; chaff.
Something worthless or of poor quality; junk.
The long-running game show went from offering good prizes to crap in no time.
Nonsense; something untrue.
The college student boasted of completing a 10,000-word essay on Shakespeare, but that claim was utter crap.

verb

To defecate.
That soup tasted funny, and now I need to crap.
To defecate in or on (clothing etc.).
He almost crapped his pants from fright.
To bullshit.
Don't try to crap me: I know you're lying.

adjective

Of poor quality.
I drove an old crap car for ten years before buying a new one.

interjection

Expression of worry, fear, shock, surprise, disgust, annoyance, or dismay.
Oh crap! The other driver's going to hit my car!

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.

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