crap! excl.
a general excl.
Pop Hicks 19: Seventy-five dollars a week, by the jumping jerushy Crambo Crap! [HDAS]. | ||
M.S. Bradford Special 50: By craps, some big affair? | ||
Pardners (1912) 62: Before you could say ‘Craps! you lose,’ them shave-tails was given the grandest exhibition of animal idiocy. | ||
in | Best Amer. Short Stories 24: Craps amighty. A swell chance I got.||
AS VII:5 330: crap — exclamation of disgust. | ‘Johns Hopkins Jargon’ in||
World I Never Made 482: ‘I bought ’em!’ said Bill. ‘Crap! Crap!’ said Cross-Eyed Bucky. | ||
To Whom It May Concern 15: Oh crap! Why should I bother even to keep this diary? Why anything? | ||
(con. 1910s) Heed the Thunder (1994) 249: ‘I ain’t takin’ advantage of him.’ Gus said, ‘Crap!’. | ||
End as a Man (1952) 158: Well, by crap, they’re going to transfer me too. | ||
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Act II: brick: Both of us married into society, Big Daddy. big daddy: Crap ... | ||
Price of Murder (1978) 24: Social conscience. Crap! | ||
Weed (1998) 122: Damn. Piss. Crap: or really, just plain shit. | ||
Shake Him Till He Rattles (1964) 43: Crap. You’re not foolish enough to believe that. | ||
(con. 1958) Been Down So Long (1972) 36: ‘Never mix shit and booze,’ came the reprimand. ‘Oh crap, a mother.’. | ||
Picture Palace 302: ‘Crap,’ I said. | ||
Tourist Season (1987) 238: Crap! | ||
Penguin Bk of More Aus. Jokes 288: ‘What a wonderful sacrifice one has made for one’s country,’ said the somewhat dismayed Diana. ‘Crap,’ said the head. | ||
Sleep with the Fishes 93: Oh crap. Here he goes – here he goes. |
In exclamations
(US) a general intensifier, usu. negative.
To Brooklyn with Love 89: Like crap I do. Go on, get out. |