crap

/kræp/

/kræp/

Other forms: craps; crapped; crapping

Crap is a versatile word, usually meaning feces, stuff, or garbage. It's definitely slang but not really obscene.

This is a word that's on the borderline between acceptable slang and potty language. You can be 100% sure that saying the s-word (which means almost exactly the same thing as crap) will get you in trouble if you said it in class, but crap isn't so clear cut. It's sort of naughty but getting less naughty all the time. But whether you're taking a crap (pooping) or being told to get all the crap (junk) off your desk, you'll find that crap of any kind is never held in high regard.

Definitions of crap

1. noun

   obscene terms for feces
   synonyms: dirt, poop, turd

   type of:

   BM, dejection, faecal matter, faeces, fecal matter, feces, ordure, stool

   solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels
2. verb

   have a bowel movement
   synonyms: ca-ca, defecate, make, stool, take a crap

   make, make water, micturate, pass water, pee, pee-pee, piddle, piss, puddle, relieve oneself, spend a penny, take a leak, urinate, wee, wee-wee

   eliminate urine

   types:

   dung

   defecate; used of animals

   type of:

   egest, eliminate, excrete, pass

   eliminate from the body
3. noun

   obscene words for unacceptable behavior
   synonyms: Irish bull, bull

   type of:

   buncombe, bunk, bunkum, guff, hogwash, rot

   unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements)