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crap-shoot

crap-shoot is the alternative spelling of crapshoot.

Meaning of crapshoot

Noun

crapshoot (plural crapshoots)

  1. A game of craps.
  2. (US, figuratively) A venture with a highly risky or unpredictable outcome.
    • "Well, yeah, I can see that. It's not like he lives in the 'hood, yadamean? Who comes way out here? It'd be a real crapshoot. People out here'd either pull a gun on you or invite you for pot roast."2013, Lisa McMann, Don't Close Your Eyes: Wake, Fade, Gone, New York, N.Y.: Simon Pulse, →ISBN, page 604

Forms of crap-shoot

pluralcrap-shoots

Questions about crap-shoot

What is crap-shoot the alternative spelling of?
Crap-shoot is the alternative spelling of crapshoot.

Words near crap-shoot in the dictionary

  1. crap shoot
  2. crap shoots
  3. crap ton
  4. crap tons
  5. crap up
  6. crap-shoot
  7. crap-shoots
  8. crapacious
  9. crapalicious
  10. crapass
  11. crapaud

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Adapted from Wiktionary: crap-shoot (page history and authors); crapshoot (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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