craps
pronunciation
How to pronounce craps in British English:
UK [kræps]
How to pronounce craps in American English:
US [kræps]
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- Noun:
- when two dice are thrown and both come up showing one spot the results is called `craps' or `snake eyes'
- a gambling game using two dice
Word Origin
- craps (n.)
- 1843, American English, unrelated to the term for excrement, instead it is from Louisiana French craps "the game of hazard," from an 18c. continental French corruption of English crabs, which was 18c. slang for "a throw of two or three" (the lowest throw), which perhaps is from crab (n.2), the sense in crab apple. The 1843 citation (in an anti-gambling publication, "An Exposure of the Arts and Miseries of Gambling") calls it "a game lately introduced into New Orleans."
Example
- 1. Since when do you knowhow to play craps ?
- 2. New way of looking at craps .
- 3. Winning craps money the wrong way .
- 4. Hey.can you tele-port us to the craps table in caesar 's palace ?
- 5. Color flight chess game and play are more or less the same points then watch mobile craps , different controls are not plane , but a castle shou general game screen is very beautiful .