craps

Definition

A game of gambling, or chance, where the players throw dice to make scores and avoid crap.

Etymology

From Louisiana Creole craps, a corruption of English crabs.

Example Sentences

• "“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. […]”"
• "What's the haps on the craps?"
• "Start off the dice-rollin' mats for craps to cee-lo / With side-bets, I roll a deuce, nothin' below"