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▪ I. crap, n.1 Obs. or dial.|kræp|
Also 5 crappe.
[Identical with earlier Du. krappe ‘carptus, carptura, res decerpta, frustum decerptum siue abscissum, pars abrasa siue abscissa; pars carnis abscissa; crustum; offella, offula; placenta; pulpamentum’ (Kilian, 1599), connected with krappen to pluck off, cut off, separate. Cf. also F. crape, OF. crappe siftings, also ‘the grain trodden under feet in the barn, and mingled with the straw and dust’ (M. L. Delisle in Godef.), med.L. crappa in Du Cange. (Cf. also crapinum the smaller chaff.) In mod.F. the word has taken the sense of ‘dirt, filth’, and ‘grease of a millstone’. It is doubtful whether all the senses here placed belong to one word, though a common notion of ‘rejected or left matter, residue, dregs, dust’ runs through them.]
†1. The husk of grain; chaff. Obs.
c1440Promp. Parv. 100 Crappe, or gropys of corne, acus. 1483Cath. Angl. 80 Crappes, acus.
2. A name of some plants:
a. Buckwheat.
b. Applied locally to various weeds growing among corn, as Darnel, Rye-grass, Charlock.
c1425Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 664/29 Hoc siligo, rye..Hec curalis, crappys. c1450Ibid 726/16 Hec vicia, a fech. Hec cruralis, craps. Hoc exaticum, byge. 1669Worlidge Syst. Agric. (1681) 324 Crap, in some places Darnel is so called, and in some it signifies Buckwheat. 1674Ray S. & E.C. Words, Crap, darnel, Sussex. In Worcestershire and other countries they call buck-wheat crap. [Kennett makes the former Crop, Phillips (ed. Kersey) makes both Crop.] 1808–25Jamieson, Craps..runches in general. 1875Parish Sussex Gloss., Crap or Crapgrass, Ray-grass, Lolium perenne.
3. The residue formed in rendering, boiling, or melting fat; cracklings, graves; hence crap-cake, tallow-craps. In this sense it varies with scraps. (Usually in pl.)
1490–99Promp. Parv. 101 (MS. H. & ed. Pynson) Crawke or crappe, cremium. [See crawke.] 1876Robinson Whitby Gloss., Crappins or Craps, the shreds from pig's fat, after the lard is melted out. 1877Holderness Gloss., Craps are eaten with salt to tea, etc. In North Holderness the refuse pieces after tallow-boiling are also called craps. 1877E. Peacock N.W. Linc. Gloss., Craps, Scraps, scraps of pig's fat which remain after the lard has been extracted by boiling. People eat them with mustard, vinegar, and pepper.
4. ‘The dregs of beer or ale’ (Halliwell).
1879G. F. Jackson Shropsh. Word-bk., Crap, Crop, the settlings of ale or beer at the bottom of a barrel, sometimes used instead of barm.
5. Money. slang or dial. [A cant use of some of the prec. senses, or of F. crape dirt: cf. ‘dust’.]
a1700B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, Crap, Money. 1746Collier (Tim Bobbin) View Lanc. Dial. To Rdr., I'm poor Got-wot..My Crap's aw done. 1787Grose Provinc. Gloss., Crap..in the north it is sometimes used for money.
6. A scrap: perh. due to confusion of the words.
1515Barclay Egloges ii. (1570) B iij/4 And sometime to thee is sent a little crap With sauour therof to take thee in the trap. 1520Whitinton Vulg. (1527) 42 b, Gadre vp the crappes & cromes clene. 1570Levins Manip. 26 A crape, mica, gramum [Levins has not Scrap].
7. a. coarse slang. Excrement; defecation. Also Comb., as crap-house, a privy.
1898in Wright Eng. Dial. Dict. 1925J. Dos Passos Manhattan Transfer 20 You don't want to shovel crap..all your life. 1937Partridge Dict. Slang 189/1 Crap. 4 A defecation..Esp. do a crap. 1951J. D. Salinger Catcher in Rye xvi. 140 There didn't look like there was anything in the park except dog crap. 1953A. Baron Human Kind 178 To clean their crap up after them! 1958E. Hyams Taking it Easy 191 As cunning as a crap-house rat.
b. transf. Rubbish, nonsense; something (occas. someone) worthless, inferior or disgusting. slang.
1898Wright Eng. Dial. Dict. s.v., What crap's that y'er talkin? 1929T. Wolfe Look Homeward (1930) xiv. 190 Little Maudie will fill up the column to-morrow with some of her crap. 1934J. T. Farrell Young Manhood (1936) ii. i. 163 Today of all days giving us that crap that he has to help his old man. 1935G. Ingram Cockney Cavalcade viii. 121 Surely the Yid wouldn't take away ‘crap’? 1951J. D. Salinger Catcher in Rye i. 5 Where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied..and all that David Copperfield kind of crap. 1953W. R. Burnett Vanity Row xiv. 100 Don't give me that crap. 1954R. Fuller Fantasy & Fugue 115 All art is crap... I've given it up entirely in favour of leisure. 1958K. Amis I like it Here i. 8 A lot of awful craps go to Spain. 1964Punch 19 Aug. 267/1 And what a load of crap that was.
▸ adj. slang. Very bad; worthless, useless. Cf. crappy adj.
1970T. Murphy Whistle in Dark iii. 78 If I say a thing I'll mean it, I'll fight for it. No old crap talk. 1982R. Carver Fires in Antaeus No. 47. 162, I always worked some crap job or other. 1998A. Warner Sopranos 197 She's a crap dancer.
▪ II. † crap, n.2 Obs.
[a. Du. krap, MDu. crappe, whence also Ger. and Sw. krapp, Da. krap, F. crappe (1513 from Lille in Godef.).]
Madder; esp. the commercial product obtained by grinding the inner part of the root.
1721C. King Brit. Merch. I. 185 Crap Madder from 1676 to 1679, 46s. a. 64s. per ct. wt. 1762tr. Busching's Syst. Geog. V. 626 In some tracts [are cultivated] the herbs for dying, as crap, woad, and clary. 1812J. Smyth Pract. Customs 133 The finest sort [of madder], which is of a bright reddish colour, is called Crop.
▪ III. crap, n.3 Thieves' cant.
[a. Du. krap cramp, clamp, clasp.]
The gallows.
1812J. H. Vaux Flash Dict., Crap, the gallows. 1829Lytton Disowned 8 But our wealth is as free of the bailiff's see, As our necks of the twisting crap. 1834H. Ainsworth Rookwood iii. v, If he come to the crap.
Hence crap v. trans., to hang.
1781G. Parker View Soc. II. 30 (Farmer) Sentencing some more to be crapped. 1812J. H. Vaux Flash Dict., Crap'd, hanged.
▪ IV. crap, n.4 U.S.
1. Var. craps.
1843J. H. Greene Espos. Gambling 89 Ask many of the merchants, what has resulted to them in consequence of their clerks being decoyed to the crap's table. 1891Amer. N. & Q. VIII. 41 There is a sort of gambling game, called crap, or ‘shooting crap’, much played by newsboys, bootblacks and negroes. 1930E. Pound XXX Cantos xxv. 113 They mustn't shoot crap in the hall of the council.
2. attrib. and Comb., as crap-game, crap-house, crap-shooter, crap-shooting, crap-table.
1890J. P. Quinn Fools of Fortune 539 The ‘clock’, policy playing, ‘crap’ games, and the sale of lottery tickets run on as though there were no let or hindrance imposed by State law. a1910‘O. Henry’ Trimmed Lamp (1916) 239 A cigar store near the Bowery that was running a crap game in the back room. 1930H. M. Tomlinson All our Yesterdays ii. ix. 204 When France and Germany play their great crap game, we don't matter. 1936J. G. Cozzens Men & Brethren i. 50 Your friends may not know any better than to start a crap game here, but you do.
1888Missouri Republ. Feb. (Farmer), When arrested he was in the negro craphouse kept by Alex. Wells.
1895Westm. Gaz. 13 Aug. 8/1 Most of the orders come from the Southern negro crap-shooters'. 1926J. Black You can't Win iv. 27, I soon came to know the poker players, crap shooters and dice sharks.
1885Boston Jrnl. 6 June 1/8 Dallas, Texas... 250 negroes are being tried for ‘crap-shooting’, a game played with dice. 1946Morehead & Mott-Smith Penguin Hoyle 218 There is little to skilful play in crapshooting other than knowing the odds concerned in various bets.
1902T. M. Young Amer. Cotton Industry 103 At the crap-table he [sc. the Negro] will often lose or win at a sitting a sum equal to the profits of his labour for a whole year. 1958G. Greene Our Man in Havana iii. i. 112 The dice ratted at the crap-tables.
▪ V. crap, v. coarse slang.
[Cf. crap n.1 7.]
1. intr. To defecate. So ˈcrapping vbl. n.
1846[see dunny n.2 1]. 1859Hotten Slang Dict. 26 Crapping case, a privy, or water-closet. 1874Ibid. 132 Crap, to ease oneself by evacuation. Crapping case, or ken, the water-closet. Generally called crapping-castle. 1953A. Baron Human Kind 178 They'd crapped on the floor, in the same rooms they'd slept in.
2. trans. To talk nonsense to; to act or speak deceitfully to. U.S.
1930J. T. Farrell in Wentworth & Flexner Dict. Amer. Slang (1960) 128/1 Don't crap me! You're still in love with her. 1958S. Ellin Eighth Circle (1959) ii. xviii. 180, I don't want you to crap me... I want your honest opinion.
3. U.S. phrases: to crap around, to behave foolishly; to ‘mess about’; to concern oneself with (something worthless); to crap out [? cf. crap n.4], to be unsuccessful, to lose; to fail; to withdraw from an activity, game, etc.
1933Hemingway Winner take Nothing (1934) 221, I have passed at dice for three thousand dollars and crapped out for the six. 1937J. Weidman I can get it for you Wholesale (1939) iv. 31 We've decided to show these guys that we mean business. No crapping around. 1941B. Schulberg What makes Sammy Run? iv. 52 What good do you think it's gonna do you to crap around with stuff like that? 1942Berrey & Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §7/7 Get out of order; break,..crap out. Ibid. §27/6 Come to nothing,..crap out. Ibid. §219/7 Have bad luck,..crap out. Ibid. §262/2 Fail,..crap out. Ibid. §649/7 Be defeated; lose,..crap out. 1952S. Kauffmann Philanderer (1953) iv. 64 Let's not crap around. Let's get to the business in hand. 1964A. Wykes Gambling vi. 144 And so the shooter cannot ‘crap out’.
▪ VI. crap
Sc. dial. f. crop n. and v.
▪ VII. crap
obs. and Sc. pa. tense of creep. |