- [uncountable] an offensive word for ideas, statements or beliefs that you think are silly or not true synonym nonsense
- He's so full of crap.
- Let's cut the crap and get down to business.
- (British English) You're talking a load of crap!
- (North American English) What a bunch of crap!
Extra Examples- ‘She says she never knew anything about this.’ ‘That's just crap.’
- Let's just cut the crap and get down to business.
- She talks complete crap about politics.
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- [uncountable] an offensive word for something that you think is of bad quality
- This work is complete crap.
- (British English) Her latest film is a load of crap.
- (North American English) Her latest movie is a bunch of crap.
- I won’t put up with any old crap.
Extra Examples- They say it's art, but I reckon it's a pile of crap.
- We eat a lot of crap and then wonder why we put on weight.
- ‘What did you think of their performance this afternoon?’ ‘Crap.’
- [uncountable] an offensive word for criticism or treatment that you think is unfair
- I'm not going to take this crap any more.
- [uncountable] solid waste matter from the bowels synonym excrement
- [singular] an act of emptying solid waste matter from the bowels
- to have a crap
Word OriginMiddle English: related to Dutch krappe, from krappen ‘pluck or cut off’, and perhaps also to Old French crappe ‘siftings’, Anglo-Latin crappa ‘chaff’. The original sense was ‘chaff’, later ‘residue from rendering fat’, also ‘dregs of beer’. Current senses date from the late 19th cent.
Idioms
bug the hell/crap/shit out of somebody
- (offensive, slang) to annoy somebody very much
- The song just bugs the hell out of me.
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