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crump | crap |

As a proper noun crump

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crump

English

Etymology 1

Anglo-Saxon (crumb) stooping, bent down, akin to Old High German chrumb, (etyl) krumm, (etyl) krum, and English cramp.

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (UK, Scotland, dialect) Hard or crusty; dry baked
  • a crump loaf
  • (obsolete) crooked; bent
  • * Jeremy Taylor
  • Crooked backs and crump shoulders.

    Etymology 2

    Onomatopoeic.English onomatopoeias

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The sound of a muffled explosion.
  • * 1929 , Robert Graves, Goodbye to All That
  • [hymn] "To an inheritance incorruptible . . . Through faith unto salvation, Ready to be revealed at the last trump." For "trump" we always used to sing "crump." A crump was German five-point-nine shell, and "the last crump" would be the end of the War.
  • * 1999 , Kate Atkinson, Behind the Scenes at the Museum
  • Crump , crack! A shell exploded near them and the whole aircraft yawned to port as if somebody had punched it through the sky.
  • * 2000 , Richard Woodman, The Darkening Sea
  • Above this grey skyline slowly lifting clouds of dirty smoke rose into the morning air as the salvoes of Japanese shells exploded with a delayed crump .
  • * 2008 , Paul Wood, BBC News. Taking cover on Sderot front line
  • "Now you can see what life is like for us here," said Yakov Shoshani, raising his voice to make himself heard over the sound of a loud crump .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To produce such a sound.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2007, date=September 28, author=William Grimes, title=In Middle Leg of the Race, the Prize Was Italy, work=New York Times citation
  • , passage=“Mortars crumped , and from the high ground to the east and south came the shriek of 88-millimeter shells, green fireballs that whizzed through the dunes at half a mile a second, trailing golden plumes of dust.” }}

    crap

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) crappe, also in plural: crappen, crappys, . Related to (l).

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (obsolete) The husk of grain; chaff.
  • (slang) Something of poor quality.
  • The long-running game show went from offering good prizes to crap in no time.
  • (slang, vulgar) Something that is rubbish; nonsense.
  • The college student boasted of completing a 10,000-word essay on Shakespeare, but the professor judged it as utter crap .
  • (slang, vulgar) Faeces or feces.
  • (slang, vulgar, countable) An act of defecation.
  • ''I have to take a crap
  • (slang) Useless object or entity.
  • What is that?'' ''It's just a bunch of crap

    Verb

    (crapp)
  • (vulgar, slang) To defecate.
  • Derived terms
    * crap on - (UK) To talk at length in a foolish or boring way. * To crap something out: to damage or destroy something.

    Adjective

    (crapper)
  • (chiefly, UK, colloquial, somewhat, vulgar) Of poor quality.
  • I drove an old crap car for ten years before buying a new one.
    Alternative forms
    * crappy (chiefly, North America)
    Synonyms
    * lousy * shit * shite * bollocks * piss * fuck * Deuce

    Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • (slang) Expression of worry, fear, shock, surprise, disgust, annoyance or dismay.
  • Oh crap! The other driver's going to hit my car!
    Crap! I lost the game.
    What the crap ?!
    Aw, crap , I have to start over again from the beginning of the level.

    Etymology 2

    From "crab's eyes"

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (gambling) A losing throw of 2, 3 or 12 in craps.
  • Derived terms
    * crap out * crapola * crapulation

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