crap

CEFRB2

/kɹæp/

noun

Türkçe translations

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    Something of very poor quality or little value.

  2. 02

    noun

    A rude word for waste from the body.

Examples

  • Holy crap, who's the asshole who dares call me in the middle of the night?!

  • I cook, but I'm really crap at it.

At a glance

Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5
Synonyms
5

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. Nonsense; something untrue.

  2. Something worthless or of poor quality; junk.

  3. The husk of grain; chaff.

More examples

In context

  • I stepped in some dog crap that was on the sidewalk.

  • The college student boasted of completing a 10,000-word essay on Shakespeare, but that claim was utter crap.

  • The long-running game show went from offering good prizes to crap in no time.

Synonyms

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He threw the old blank from the drawer into the trash bin.

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Origin

noun

From Middle English crappe, also in plural: crappys, craps (“chaff; buckwheat”), from Middle French crape, from Old French crappe, crapin (“chaff”) (compare Medieval Latin crappa pl, also crapinum), from Old Dutch krappen (“to cut off, pluck off”) (whence Middle Dutch crappe, crap (“a chop, cutlet”), whence Dutch krip (“a steak”)). Related to crop.