crap 1 (kr ăp) Vulgar Slang
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n. 1. Excrement. 2. An act of defecating. 3. Foolish, deceitful, or boastful language. 4. Cheap or shoddy material. 5. Miscellaneous or disorganized items; clutter. 6. Insolent talk or behavior. 7. Used for intensive effect in idioms such as beat the crap out of (someone) for beat (someone) very badly. intr.v. crapped, crap·ping, craps To defecate. interj. Used to express anger or displeasure. Phrasal Verb: crap upTo make a mess of; bungle.
[Early Middle English, chaff, residue, scraps, cracklings, partly from Middle English crappe, chaff (from Anglo-Norman crappe, waste, rubbish, chaff, back-formation (with es- taken as Old French es-, out, away, from Latin ex-, ex-) from Old French escrapper, to clean by scraping, from Frankish *skrapōn, skrappōn; see sker- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots), and perhaps partly also from Middle Dutch krappe, scrap of meat (of unknown origin).] |