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Definition of crap adjective from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

crap

adjective
 
/kræp/
 
/kræp/
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  1. (British English, offensive, slang) an offensive way to say that something is bad or of very bad quality
    • a crap band
    • The concert was crap.
    Extra Examples
    • If I get any more of this crap work from you, you're fired.
    • You're a crap singer.
  2. connected with the game of craps
    • a crap game
  3. 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.
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