crap, the phr.
1. (orig. US) the essence, the stuffing; esp. in phrs. below.
 | implied in kick the crap out of | |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | ‘Teamster’s Payday’ in To Whom It May Concern 60: Hadn’t he licked the crap out of three hoodlums? | |
| Rock 96: He [...] shot the crap out of him. | |
| (con. WWII) Dirty War of Sergeant Slade (1967) 160: They were shooting the crap out of him with machine guns. | |
| Essential Lenny Bruce 259: You’re gonna get the crap whacked outta ya. | |
| ‘Sunrise at Midnight’ in Fireworks (1988) 172: Clobber the guy [...] Clobber the living crap out of him. | |
| Christine 309: I think you’re lying about what they did to your car; your girl said they mashed the crap out of it. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | How to Shoot Friends 69: Bash the crap out of a child and you’ll get four or five months. | |
| Nubile Treat 🌐 His lust for her had been aroused, and now he was hot to fuck the crap out of her. | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Get Your Cock Out 51: Mincey [...] started banging the crap out of his vinegar stick. | |
| Birthday 64: Somebody had punched the crap out of him. |
2. (orig. US) a euph. for hell, the phr. (1) used in questions, e.g. what the crap do you want?
| Let No Man Write My Epitaph 335: Who the crap asked you to come over here? | |
| Day of Absence in Black Drama 201: What the crap good are they! | |
| Hermanos! 321: Who the crap cares, yuh big jerk. | |
| in Black Drama 201: Well, what the crap good are they! | |
| Alphabet Man 177: Who the crap cares? | |
| Death Is lighter Than a Feather 90: How the crap should Ah know? | |
| October Sky 369: Calvin, what the crap are you doin? | |
| Uncivil Seasons 232: Where the crap have you been?! | |
| Past Is Never Dead 225: How the crap did you find me? | |
| Puppetmyst 144: ‘Who the Crap is Chip!’ I wanted to ask. | |
| Darkling 21: Jesus, what the crap are you on? |
In phrases
(orig. US) to beat up.
| Young Lonigan 106: He’ll kick the crap out of you. | |
| Amboy Dukes 161: I’m one guy who knows that he can kick the crap outa you. | |
| Tomboy (1952) 66: You know what to do [...] kick the crap out of them. | |
| Long Wait (1954) 61: He just had the crap kicked outa him. | |
| (con. 1920s) South of Heaven (1994) 34: If I was really a friend of yours, I’d kick the crap out of you. | |
| (con. 1964-65) Sex and Thugs and Rock ’n’ Roll 136: ‘Joey had her in the gutter, kicking the crap out of her’. | |
| Everybody Smokes in Hell 49: The sun was heading into round two of its daily struggle with the smog. Losing. Getting the crap kicked out of it. | |
| Guardian Rev. 25 June 20: Three of us hit it with sticks and I kicked the crap out of it. | |
![[Ire]](/static/img/flags/ire.png "Ireland") | Cartoon City 248: Tell that to Psychodad. He already kicked the crap out of you once. | |
| Fever Kill 63: The days [...] in the jail kicking the crap out of Crease. | |
| Atomic Lobster 124: I might kick the crap out of you, but that’s just involuntary reflex. |
1. (orig. US) to beat up.
| Never Come Morning (1988) 196: Down my way he [i.e. a pimp] takes all her money ’n slaps the crap out of her. | |
| (con. 1944) Naked and Dead 86: Move on, move on before I knock-the-crap-out-of-you. | |
| Battle Cry (1964) 52: Come back here, wise guy, or I’ll knock the crap out of you. | |
| West Side Story I i: You’re gonna make nice with them PRs from now on. Because otherwise I’m gonna beat the crap outa every one of ya and then run ya in. | |
| Out of the Burning (1961) 123: They would slap the crap out of him to make him talk. | |
| ‘High Dice’ in Gentleman Junkie 88: Kurt [...] beat the crap outta him. | |
| Dead Zone (1980) 51: A great, mean, blond-haired Southern boy [...] had beaten the crap out of him. | |
| Alice in La-La Land (1999) 33: ‘Your mother’s fuckin’ deaf!’ ‘My brother isn’t, and he’ll beat the crap out of you.’. | |
| Pugilist at Rest 33: Flashing knives and shit [...] beating the crap out of prostitutes and so on. | |
| Shooting Dr. Jack (2002) 46: They beat the crap out of him right there. | |
| Riker’s 17: [A]n inmate who beat the crap out of another inmate and bloodied him up really bad. |
2. in fig. sense, to malign.
| Turning Angel 157: Jimmy’s old man threatened to beat the crap out of him if he didn’t tell the truth. |
to terrify.
| (con. 1930s) Lawd Today 174: He scared the piss out of them rich white folks! | |
| Essential Lenny Bruce 85: It just scares the crap outta ya. | |
| Choirboys (1976) 115: Almost literally scaring the crap out of the already nervous Captain Drobeck. | |
| Glitter Dome (1982) 63: ‘BLOOO-EEE!’ Herman III yelled, this time scaring the living crap out of Al Mackey and Martin Welborn. | |
| Golden Orange (1991) 58: She was scaring the living crap out of Winnie Farlowe. | |
| Guardian 6 Nov. 1: The speed and intensity of the Taliban response at Mullah Omar’s compound ‘scared the crap out of everyone’, a senior official told the New Yorker. |