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Definition of craps noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

craps

noun
 
/kræps/
 
/kræps/
[uncountable] (North American English)
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  1. a gambling game played with two dice
    • to shoot craps (= play this game)
    Word Originearly 19th cent.: perhaps from crab or crab's eyes, denoting the lowest throw (two ones) at dice.
See craps in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary

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