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- [kraps]
- /kræps/
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- [kraps]
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Definitions of craps word
- noun craps a gambling game using two dice, in which a player wins the bet if 7 or 11 is thrown first, and loses if 2, 3, or 12 is thrown 3
- noun plural craps a gambling game played with two dice: a first throw of seven or eleven wins, and a first throw of two, three, or twelve loses, while any other first throw, to win, must be repeated before a seven is thrown 3
- noun plural craps crap1 (sense 2) 3
- noun craps (in craps) a losing throw, in which the total on the two dice is 2, 3, or 12. 1
- abbreviation CRAPS craps. 1
- verb without object craps Vulgar. to defecate. 1
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Origin of craps
First appearance:
before 1835 One of the 34% newest English words
1835-45, Americanism; apparently < French craps, variant of crabs double-ace (lowest throw at hazard) < 18th-century E slang: plural of crab1
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Parts of speech for Craps
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craps popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 86% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
craps usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for craps
noun craps
- gin rummy — gin4 (def 1).
- canasta — a card game for two to six players who seek to amass points by declaring sets of cards
- shaker — a person or thing that shakes.
- crazy eights — a card game played by two or more persons with a 52-card deck, the object of which is to be the first to get rid of one's hand by successively playing a card of the same suit or denomination as that played by the preceding player, with an eight counting for any desired suit.
- dice — A dice is a small cube which has between one and six spots or numbers on its sides, and which is used in games to provide random numbers. In old-fashioned English, 'dice' was used only as a plural form, and the singular was die, but now 'dice' is used as both the singular and the plural form.
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