craps
nounEtymology Plural of crap.
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plural of crap
craps
noun/kɹæps/
Etymology From Louisiana Creole craps, a corruption of English crabs.
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Dice, Gambling, Games 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. […]”1920, Peter B. Kyne, chapter XII, in The Understanding Heart:
- What's the haps on the craps?1992, Ice Cube, “It Was a Good Day”, in The Predator:
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- Start off the dice-rollin' mats for craps to cee-lo / With side-bets, I roll a deuce, nothin' below1994, “Memory Lane (Sittin’ in da Park)”, in Illmatic, performed by Nas:
- Derived terms
- bank craps, bastard craps, crapless craps