"craps game"

Charles Doyle cdoyle at UGA.EDU
Mon Mar 30 16:19:37 UTC 2009


In what may be the most common use of the word nowadays--figuratively, in the idiom "crap-shoot"--we can't tell whether the word is "crap" or "craps."

--Charlie
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