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   crap

   /krap/

   noun

   • 1. something of extremely poor quality: "please bring me back the tackiest piece of tourist crap you can find"
   • ▪ nonsense: "this is just to give you a small idea of the kind of crap I have to deal with"
   • ▪ unwanted articles; rubbish: "we have an awful lot of crap in our loft"
   • 2. excrement.
   • ▪ an act of defecation.

   verb

   • 1. defecate.
   • 2. talk at length in a foolish or boring way. British

   adjective

   • 1. extremely poor in quality: British "the first 85 minutes of the game were crap"

   exclamation

   • 1. an exclamation of alarm, anger, or annoyance: "oh crap, somebody's shooting at us!"

   Word Origin late Middle 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 century.

   Scrabble Points: 8

   • C

     3

   • R

     1

   • A

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   • P

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