What is "craps"

Crap \Crap\ (kr[a^]p), n.

1. 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.

2. same as excrement and feces. [vulgar]

   Syn: shit. [PJC]

3. nonsense; balderdash; bullshit; -- also used as an expletive. [vulgar]

   Syn: bullshit. [PJC]

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), which perhaps is from crab (n.2), the sense in crab apple. The 1843 citation (in an anti-gambling publication, "An Exposure of the Arts and Miseries of Gambling") calls it "a game lately introduced into New Orleans."

Etymology 1 n. (context pluralonly English) a game of gambling, or chance, where the players throw dice to make scores and avoid crap Etymology 2

n. 1 (plural of crap English)Category:English plurals 2 (context pluralonly slang vulgar English) diarrhe

1. v

2. (en-third-person singular of: crap)

1. n. when two dice are thrown and both come up showing one spot the results is called `craps' or `snake eyes' [syn: snake eyes]

2. a gambling game using two dice [syn: crap shooting, crapshoot, crap game]

Craps is a dice game in which the players make wagers on the outcome of the roll, or a series of rolls, of a pair of dice. Players may wager money against each other (playing "street craps", also known as "shooting dice" or "rolling dice") or a bank (playing " casino craps", also known as "table craps", or often just "craps"). Because it requires little equipment, "street craps" can be played in informal settings.

Craps is the second full length from Boston band Big Dipper. The album was released in 1988 on Homestead Records. Craps was remastered and re-released as part of Merge Record's Supercluster: The Big Dipper Anthology in 2008.

Craps (After Hours) is an album by Richard Pryor, released in 1971 on the Laff Records label. His second overall release (his first being his self-titled 1968 release on the Dove/Reprise label), it was released during the comedian's transitional period from a middlebrow Cosbyized comic into a more improvisational, socially conscious, controversial brand of raw humor that Pryor would help to pioneer during the 1970s. Several monologues from the album were repeated for Pryor's first concert film, Live & Smokin, though that movie would be held from release until 1985 as a VHS videotape. Recorded at Redd Foxx's club in Hollywood, Pryor is introduced by the emcee as "the crown prince of comedy".

For some unknown reason, possibly a mix up at the record producer, some LP's were pressed with a comic referred to as Hotshot Hogan on the B-side.

Side two of this album was later re-released in a split LP with Redd Foxx, "Pryor Goes Foxx Hunting" (Laff A170).