crap adj.
a general negative description; unpleasant, disgusting, repellent, worthless etc.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | letter 14 Apr. in Riggio Dreiser-Mencken Letters II (1986) 523: I have not seen his alleged book. It is probably crap. | |
| World I Never Made 479: ‘Crap luck!’ Bull Young said. | |
| letter 18 May in Charters I (1995) 357: The protagonist-hero who is unqueer but all camp [...] and craptalk, the only thing good, as Bill says, are the satirical queer scenes. | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Adolescent Boys of East London (1969) 27: Anyway it was a crap school I went to. | |
| All Bull 32: You’re crap, you lot! | |
| London Embassy 17: They’re very modern laid-back people with a house full of crap art and heads full of crap opinions. | |
| in That Was Business, This Is Personal 19: We watched American films because we thought British gangster films were crap. | |
| Thanksgiving 74: I turned the lights back on and watched crapware TV until I passed out on the sofa. | |
| Guardian 8 Feb. 22: They are doing a crap job for crap money. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Rubdown [ebook] Kitchen monkey was one of my many crap jobs. | |
| Crooked Little Vein 163: You kill people for wearing crap clothes, from what I can make out. | |
![[Scot]](/static/img/flags/sco.png "Scotland") | All the Colours 34: The early numbers [of a magazine] were winningly crap. | |
| Observer New Review 15/2: We say the problem is not the system, it’s crap teachers. | |
| Finders Keepers (2016) 10: Man, what a crap carnival. | |
| Base Nature [ebook] ‘You’re a crap father’. |
In derivatives
exceptionally mediocre.
 | Maximum Rocknroll (San Francisco) July 🌐 Craptacular Records is a cool new label in town specializing in punk rock-n-roll [...] Craptacular is interested in anything that rocks in a cool kinda way. | |
| Maximum PC (Brisbane, CA) Sept. 68/2: Readers suggested bad products henceforth be described as: craptastic, craptageous, craptacular [...] and wiggedy-wack. | |
| Family Jewels 39: For some reason, people think that if you give someone a present, that person has to listen to your craptacular advice or something, and swallow it with a smile. | |
| Tell Me How This Ends Well 3: Each one [...] sounded exactly like, if not worse than, the next, each vying for a top spot in Jacob’s memory as the most craptacular and inappropriate accompaniment to breakfast. | |
| Good Girl Stripped Bare 56: The Big Spud — the most craptacular attraction tourists have ever seen. |
(US) exceptionally mediocre.
| Maximum PC (Brisbane, CA) Sept. 68/2: Readers suggested bad products henceforth be described as: craptastic, craptageous, craptacular [...] and wiggedy-wack. |
(US) one who is both foolish and an advocate of stupidity.
| Urban Dict. 30 Nov. 🌐 craptard: One who displays substandard intelligence while simultaneously being ‘full of crap.’ adj: craptarded. | |
| Going Bovine 312: ‘Didn’t I tell you he was a craptard?’Gonzo says, vindicated at last. | |
| Google Groups: alt.prophecies.nostradamus 10 Aug. 🌐 It would seem you display more the characteristics of a ‘tard’, or as a past APN illuminary called Mikey once coined, a ‘craptard’, than I. | |
| Marienbad My Love With Mango Extracts 369: This is not a craptard opinion, but a righteous fact. |
(US) exceptionally mediocre.
| Maximum PC (Brisbane, CA) Sept. 68/2: Readers suggested bad products henceforth be described as: craptastic, craptageous, craptacular [...] and wiggedy-wack. | |
| Me, Myself and Ike 89: We look at cell phones and digital cameras and figure out even the craptastic ones would add up to a couple of hundred dollars. | |
| Turn Up the Heat 12: It had been at least a month since she’d gone on a baking binge – something that always made her feel worlds better when she was having a craptastic day. |
In compounds
(US) second-rate, inferior.
| slappyJack.com 🌐 Sick of those crap-ass postcard services that give you crap-ass images that you wouldn’t use to wipe your ass with? | |
| theStranger.com 24–30 Jan. 🌐 As I announced last week, fans of the FOX comedy The Tick should wake up and smell the coffee because that crap-ass show has been justifiably cancelled. |
(US campus) an easy course.
| Good Deeds Must Be Punished 303: I had signed for [...] a one-hour crap course entitled Egyptian Band Instruments. | |
| Annie Hall [film script] Oh stop it, you’re having an affair with your college professor, that jerk that teaches that incredible crap course, Contemporary Crisis in Western Man... | |
| ‘The Bureaucrat and the Matriarch’ 🌐 They all said it didn’t matter too much which courses a person took so long as there was college credit at the end of the term. [...] All three used the term ‘crap courses.’ A ‘crap course’ was a ‘snap course.’ Obviously colleges have set up these courses for people like me who were looking for an easy way to get ‘paper credits.’. |