craps, n. — Green’s Dictionary of Slang

craps n.

[the dice game SE craps]

dice.

1926		Wood & Goddard Dict. Amer. Sl.
1965		C. Brown Manchild in the Promised Land (1969) 158: I’d take some loaded craps down there, some bones [...] and beat the paddy boys out of all their money.
1984		A. Sample (con. mid-1930s-early 1940s) Racehoss 39: When he’d swing the craps it caused confusion, and she lit in on him.

In phrases

swing the craps (v.)

(US gambling) to sell one’s turn in a dice game.

1984

A. Sample (con. mid-1930s-early 1940s) Racehoss 39: Terrell Latham had been ‘swinging’ the craps all evening [...] He hung around every crap game in town and never had more than two dollars to lose. After he was broke, or claimed to be, every time his turn came he sold it to a gambler on the other side of the blanket.