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crapo

/ˈkɹeɪpoʊ/

crapo is the alternative form of crappo.

Meaning of crappo

Noun (1)

crappo (plural crappos)

  1. (Caribbean, Guyana, Trinidad-and-Tobago) A toad (chiefly from the family Bufonidae).
    • Medical attention is immediately needed if "Fido" encounters a specie of huge toad, up to eight to ten inches round, called a "crappo", and decides to take it into his mouth to play with. This toad exudes a substance from glands in its skin which will cause profuse salivation, and sometimes, if...1982, The Settler’s Handbook: Everything You Need to Know about St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands, 6th edition, Christiansted, Saint Croix, United States Virgin Islands: Prestige Press, →OCLC...

Noun (2)

crappo

  1. (Trinidad-and-Tobago) The andiroba or crabwood tree (Carapa guianensis).
    • Carapa or Crappo […] Carapa Guianensis, Aubl.1888, J. H. Hart, “Appendix C. Classified List of the Wood-producing Trees of Trinidad”, in Annual Report on the Royal Botanic Gardens, and Their Work for 1887 (Council Paper; no. 32), [Port of...

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Proper noun capitalized: Crapo

Crapo (plural Crapos)

  1. A surname.
    • “The question is PNTR, which is absent. And then they had some other stuff on the WTO in there, which is kind of hollow if we don’t do PNTR,” Crapo said earlier in the day.2022 March 10, Kaitlan Collins, Manu Raju, Kate Sullivan, MJ Lee and John Harwood, “Biden calls for suspending normal trade relations with Russia and will ban imports of vodka and seafood”, in CNN

Forms of crapo

Noun
pluralcrapos
Proper noun
pluralCrapos

Origin of crapo

Uncertain origin and variable origins depending on the ancestry of the bearer : * In some cases, possibly borrowed from Sicilian crapu (“he-goat”), masculine and obsolete form of crapa (“she-goat”). Compare also Italian capro. * In some cases, from French Crépeau, derived from Middle French Crespeau or Crepeau, itself from Old French cresp.

Questions about crapo

What does crapo mean?
Crapo means a surname.
What is crapo the alternative form of?
Crapo is the alternative form of crappo.
What part of speech is crapo?
Crapo is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce crapo?
Crapo is pronounced /ˈkɹeɪpoʊ/.

Words near crapo in the dictionary

  1. crapmeister
  2. crapmeisters
  3. crapmobile
  4. crapmobiles
  5. crapness
  6. crapo
  7. crapoid
  8. crapola
  9. crapology
  10. craporama
  11. crapos

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Adapted from Wiktionary: crapo (page history and authors); Crapo (page history and authors); crappo (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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