Craps vs Oontz - What's the difference?
craps | oontz |
(pluralonly) a game of gambling, or chance, where the players "roll" or throw dice to make scores and avoid crap
* 1920 , , The Understanding Heart , Chapter XII
(crap)
(dated) The game of craps.
(slang) Imitating an electronic drum sound.
* 1999 , "BRENTT NEWMAN", Garage?'' (discussion on Internet newsgroup ''alt.music.jungle )
* 2000 , "Tiny Human Ferret", Musical Pretention'' (discussion on Internet newsgroup ''alt.gothic.pretentions )
* 2002 , "Evil Sponge", Gonna go see Blade II today - wanna come?'' (discussion on Internet newsgroup ''alt.books.clive-barker )
As nouns the difference between craps and oontz
is that craps is a game of gambling, or chance, where the players "roll" or throw dice to make scores and avoid crap while oontz is the game of craps.As a verb craps
is third-person singular of crap.As an interjection oontz is
imitating an electronic drum sound.craps
English
(wikipedia craps)Etymology 1
From (etyl)Noun
(en-plural noun)- “As an inventor,” Bob Mason suggested, “you're a howling success at shooting craps ! If I were as free of spavins, ringbone, saddle-galls, and splints as you are, I'd have that nanny-goat in here, hog-tie her, flop her and let the boy help himself. ”
Etymology 2
Verb
(head)Anagrams
* * * *oontz
English
Etymology 1
Noun
(-)Etymology 2
Imitative.Interjection
(en interjection)- Garage isn't very much lke (SIC) jungle. The garage that I've heard is like jazzy house (has the oontz oontz oontz beat) maybe a little loungy.
- Maybe if I had some electronic drumbeats and grinding noises and of course some oontz oontz oontz noises...
- I thought you didn't like all that oontz oontz music : )