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craps

[ kraps ]

noun

, (usually used with a singular verb)
  1. a game in which two dice are thrown and in which a first throw of 7 or 11 wins, a first throw of 2, 3, or 12 loses, and a first throw of 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, or 10 can be won only by throwing the same number again before throwing a 7.


craps

/ kræps /

noun

  1. a gambling game using two dice, in which a player wins the bet if 7 or 11 is thrown first, and loses if 2, 3, or 12 is thrown
  2. shoot craps
    shoot craps to play this game


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Word History and Origins

Origin of craps1

First recorded in 1835–45, Americanism; apparently from French craps, variant of crabs “double-ace” (lowest throw at the game of hazard), from 18th-century English slang; crab 1( def 7a )

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Word History and Origins

Origin of craps1

C19: probably from crabs lowest throw at dice, plural of crab 1

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Example Sentences

Pre-covid, you could probably snuggle 12 to 14 people at a big craps table.

It was my turn to shoot, so I leaned over the craps table and scooped up the dice.

In the years that followed, “Bezos invested Amazon’s winnings like a crazed gambler at the craps table in Las Vegas,” Stone writes.

When my grandfather, Russ, came of age he shifted from alcohol to gambling, the next income stream that the mob developed, running craps games out of the back of his car.

From Time

Craps was just too risky, and—in a far stretch—this was meant as a way to measure how my father would govern.

Craps, played by these free-handed sons of the open, had more of a punch than he had imagined possible.

At Craps, I fear, my hand in late years had lost much of its cunning.

At Craps, I fear, my hand in late years has lost much of its cunning.

The now practically obsolete game of Hazard was much more complicated than Craps.

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