| Front | crap |
|---|---|
| Back | crap noun, adjective, verb BrE /kræp/ NAmE /kræp/ noun word origin example bank (taboo, slang) 1 [uncountable] nonsense He's so full of crap. Let's cut the crap and get down to business. (BrE) You're talking a load of crap! (NAmE) What a bunch of crap! 2 [uncountable] something of bad quality This work is complete crap. (BrE) Her latest film is a load of crap. (NAmE) Her latest movie is a bunch of crap. I won't put up with any old crap. More acceptable words are rubbish, garbage, trash or junk. 3 [uncountable] criticism or unfair treatment I'm not going to take this crap any more. 4 [uncountable] solid waste matter from the bowels excrement 5 [singular] an act of emptying solid waste matter from the bowels to have a crap see bug the hell/crap/shit out of sb at bug v. adjective word origin (BrE, taboo, slang) bad; of very bad quality a crap band The concert was crap. crap adverb The team played crap yesterday. verb verb forms word origin (-pp-) [intransitive] (taboo, slang) to empty solid waste from the bowels defecate A more polite way of expressing this is ‘to go to the toilet/lavatory’ (BrE), ‘to go to the bathroom’(NAmE), or ‘to go’. A more formal expression is ‘to empty the bowels’. |
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