craps

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
9
Words With Friends
11
Letters
5
Pronunciation
/kɹæps/

Definition of craps

4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (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

  1. (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”
  2. (form-of, plural)plural of crap
  3. (slang, vulgar)(preceded by the) diarrhea

verb

  1. (form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person)third-person singular simple present indicative of crap

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Etymology

From Louisiana Creole craps, a corruption of English crabs.

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