Meaning

7 senses

  1. (intransitive)To lose a game of craps by rolling a seven.

  2. (intransitive, slang)To abandon an endeavour or project; to back down.

    He crapped out as soon as he was challenged.

  3. (intransitive)To fail; to stop working.

    Darn, my car crapped out.

  4. (intransitive, slang)To blunder; to fail massively.

    The team crapped out in the second half.

  5. (intransitive, slang)To die; to collapse; to fall asleep.

    The old man crapped out.

  6. (US, intransitive, slang)To idle or mess around.

  7. (derogatory, intransitive, slang, transitive, vulgar)To give birth.

Examples

21 sentences

  1. He beat the crap out of me.

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  2. His eyes scared the crap out of me.

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  3. It scared the absolute crap out of me.

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  4. This is boring the crap out of me!

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  5. Sami scared the crap out of me.

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Origin

From die-rolling in the game craps.

From die-rolling in the game craps.

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Forms

craps out, crapping out, crapped out, crapped out
Base formcrap out · to crap out
3rd person singularcraps out
Present participlecrapping out
Past simplecrapped out
Past participlecrapped out

irregular

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theycrap out
he, she, itcraps out

Past simpleLesson

all personscrapped out

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave crapped out
he, she, ithas crapped out

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill crap out

Phrasal verbs

4 phrasal verbs

Synonyms

3 synonyms
seven outbreak downshit out

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
crapcrappycrashB1
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