a gambling game using two dice, in which a player wins the bet if 7 or 11 is thrown first, and loses if 2, 3, or 12 is thrown
2. shoot craps
Word origin
C19: probably from crabs lowest throw at dice, plural of crab1
craps in American English
(kræps)
US
plural noun
1.
a gambling game played with two dice: a first throw of seven or eleven wins, and a first throw of two, three, or twelve loses, while any other first throw, to win, must be repeated before a seven is thrown
2.
crap1 (sense 2)
Word origin
Fr crabs, craps < obs. E crabs, lowest throw at hazard, two aces
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crap
If you describe something as crap , you think that it is wrong or of very poor quality.