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单词 crap
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crap1

/krap /
vulgar slang
noun [mass noun]
1Something of extremely poor quality.
1.1Nonsense.
1.2Unwanted articles; rubbish.
2Excrement.
2.1 [count noun] An act of defecation.
verb (craps, crapping, crapped) [no object]
1Defecate.
2 (crap on) Talk at length in a foolish or boring way.
adjective British
Extremely poor in quality.

Origin

Middle English: related to Dutch krappe, from krappen 'pluck or cut off', and perhaps also to Old French crappe 'siftings', Anglo-Latin crappa 'chaff'. The original sense was 'chaff', later 'residue from rendering fat', also 'dregs of beer'. Current senses date from the late 19th century.

  • Crap is related to Dutch krappe, from krappen ‘pluck or cut off ’, and perhaps also to Old French crappe ‘siftings’, Anglo-Latin crappa ‘chaff’. The original sense was ‘chaff’, later coming to mean ‘residue from rendering fat’ as well as ‘dregs of beer’. Current senses meaning ‘something of poor quality’, ‘rubbish’, ‘nonsense’, ‘excrement’, date from the late 19th century and share the notion of ‘rejected matter’. See also crabbed

Rhymes

crap2

/krap /
North American
noun
A losing throw of 2, 3, or 12 in craps.
verb [no object] (crap out) informal
1Make a losing throw at craps: he put all his chips on the table and rolled the dice—sooner or later he had to crap out
1.1Give up an activity because of fear or fatigue: when entrepreneurs get to $1 billion they crap out and turn their companies over to others...
  • That's when you're in a band and your bassist craps out on you.
  • Hubert was a huffing and puffing and smoking, and his heart was ready to crap out.
  • That was my chance to strike up a conversation, but oh no, my heart had to crap out right then and there.
1.2Fail in an attempt: the Rams almost crapped out late in the game
1.3(Of a machine) break down: his teleprompter crapped out...
  • My DVR crapped out and I lost everything before I was able to watch.
  • This means that there is a very good chance that the cable modem will crap out at some point today.
  • Chris was also converting images into DIVs, and he probably noticed that as the DIV count increased on screen, the browsers would crap out.

Origin

Early 20th century: from craps.

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