crap

crap
crap1 [kræp] n spoken not polite
[Sense: 1-6; Date: 1800-1900; Origin: crap 'outside covering of grain, solid material from melted fat' (15-19 centuries), from Middle Dutch crappe 'piece torn off', from crappen 'to break off']
[Sense: 7; Date: 1700-1800; : Louisiana French; Origin: French crabs, craps, from English crabs 'lowest throw in a dice game', from the plural of CRAB]
1.) [U]
something someone says that you think is completely wrong or untrue
= ↑rubbish
▪ You don't believe all that crap, do you?
load/pile of crap also bunch of crap AmE
▪ That's a bunch of crap! I never said that.
▪ He came out with a load of crap about how he'd tried to call me yesterday.
▪ Greg's full of crap (=often says things that are completely wrong) .
cut the crap
(=used to tell someone to stop saying things that are completely wrong)
▪ Just cut the crap and tell me what really happened.
2.) [U]
something that is very bad or is of bad quality
= ↑rubbish
▪ They sell a lot of stuff cheap, but most of it is crap.
load/pile of crap also bunch of crap AmE
▪ The game was a load of crap.
3.) [U]
things that are useless or unimportant
▪ What is all this crap doing on my desk?
4.) [U]
bad or unfair treatment
take/stand for/put up with crap
(=to allow someone to treat you badly)
▪ I'm not going to take any more of this crap!
▪ I don't need this kind of crap (=used when you are angry about the way someone is behaving towards you) .
▪ I'm tired of you giving me crap (=saying bad things) about my long hair.
5.) [U]
solid waste that is passed from your ↑bowels
6.) [singular]
the act of passing solid waste from your ↑bowels
take a crap also have a crap
BrE
7.) craps [plural] AmE
a game played for money in the US, using two ↑dice
shoot craps
(=to play this game)
crap 2
crap2 adj BrE spoken not polite
very bad
▪ a crap film
▪ I've had such a crap day.
crap at
▪ I'm really crap at tennis.
crap 3
crap3 past tense and past participle crapped present participle crapping
v [i]informal not polite
to pass waste matter from your ↑bowels

Dictionary of contemporary English. 2013.

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