1
a
usually vulgar
: feces
b
usually vulgar
: the act of defecating
2
crapped; crapping
1
: to throw a crap
2
: to throw a seven while trying to make a point
—usually used with out
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Dominic Patten, Deadline, 22 Nov. 2024
Honestly this kind of crap creates mean behavior — then people blame the Swifties.
—Jackson Thompson, Fox News, 19 Nov. 2024
Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 24 Sep. 2024
But when the Yankees won the World Series, the jumbotron kept crapping out every time our name was meant to appear.
—Brandon Follick, The New Yorker, 27 June 2024
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Noun
The feds also have rebuffed previous moves by the defense to smear them with leaking to CNN the 2016 video of Combs kicking the crap out of Ventura.
—Dominic Patten, Deadline, 22 Nov. 2024
Honestly this kind of crap creates mean behavior — then people blame the Swifties.
—Jackson Thompson, Fox News, 19 Nov. 2024
Verb
Marshall’s Chicago won Best Picture, and so there seems reason to be excited here after earlier incarnations crapped out.
—Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 24 Sep. 2024
But when the Yankees won the World Series, the jumbotron kept crapping out every time our name was meant to appear.
—Brandon Follick, The New Yorker, 27 June 2024
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“Crap.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/crap. Accessed 28 Nov. 2024.
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