craps
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 9
- Words With Friends
- 11
- Letters
- 5
/kɹæps/
Definition of craps
4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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(plural, plural-only)A game of gambling, or chance, where the players throw dice to make scores and avoid crap.
““As an inventor,” Bob Mason suggested, “you're a howling success at shooting craps ! If I were as free of spavins, ringbone, saddle-galls, and splints as you are, I'd have that nanny-goat in here, hog-tie her, flop her and let the boy help himself. […]””
“What's the haps on the craps?”
“Start off the dice-rollin' mats for craps to cee-lo / With side-bets, I roll a deuce, nothin' below”
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noun
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(plural, plural-only)A game of gambling, or chance, where the players throw dice to make scores and avoid crap.
““As an inventor,” Bob Mason suggested, “you're a howling success at shooting craps ! If I were as free of spavins, ringbone, saddle-galls, and splints as you are, I'd have that nanny-goat in here, hog-tie her, flop her and let the boy help himself. […]””
“What's the haps on the craps?”
“Start off the dice-rollin' mats for craps to cee-lo / With side-bets, I roll a deuce, nothin' below”
- (form-of, plural)plural of crap
- (slang, vulgar)(preceded by the) diarrhea
verb
- (form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person)third-person singular simple present indicative of crap
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Louisiana Creole craps, a corruption of English crabs.
Words you can make from craps
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