Praps vs Craps - What's the difference?
praps | craps |
(informal)
* 1911 , Pearson's magazine
(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)
As an adverb praps
is contraction of lang=en.As a noun craps is
a game of gambling, or chance, where the players "roll" or throw dice to make scores and avoid crap.As a verb craps is
third-person singular of crap.praps
English
Alternative forms
*Adverb
(-)- I tried to see if I could tell by his looks which way he had decided but I couldn't, and I thought praps it would be a good time to ask him and find out.
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. ”
