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Game with a hard eight bet
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craps
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. when two dice are thrown and both come up showing one spot the results is called `craps' or `snake eyes' [syn: snake eyes ] a gambling game using two dice [syn: crap shooting , crapshoot , crap game ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Crap \Crap\ (kr[a^]p), n. In the game of craps, a first throw of the dice in which the total is two, three, or twelve, in which case the caster loses. Also called craps . same as excrement and feces . [vulgar] Syn: shit. [PJC] nonsense; balderdash; bullshit; ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1843, American English, unrelated to the term for excrement, instead it is from Louisiana French craps "the game of hazard," from an 18c. continental French corruption of English crabs , which was 18c. slang for "a throw of two or three" (the lowest throw), ...
Usage examples of craps.
Iris with a small, set, misty smile ignoring the fact that Pete Chew was gaping wistfully at her from the circle of Toni, Tudor Blackwall, Mahala and Cy Fickerty, who were squatting on the stage and shooting craps, while Harry Mihick looked on them in sorrow at such desecration.
Craps table at the Flamingo for a while, had walked across the street to listen for patterns in the ringing and clattering of the slots at Caesars Palace, and then had written down a hundred consecutive numbers that came up on a Roulette wheel at the Mirage.