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How to use craps in a sentence

11 example sentences · noun

Craps means a game of gambling, or chance, where the players throw dice to make scores and avoid crap. Example: “Sgt. Smith fleeced most of the rest of the outpost of their earnings in their weekly game of craps.”

Examples of craps by meaning

nounA game of gambling, or chance, where the players throw dice to make scores and avoid crap.

  • “As an inventor,” Bob Mason suggested, “you're a howling success at shooting craps !1920, Peter B. Kyne, chapter XII, in The Understanding Heart
  • What's the haps on the craps?1992, Ice Cube, “It Was a Good Day”, in The Predator

More sentences with craps

  • Sgt. Smith fleeced most of the rest of the outpost of their earnings in their weekly game of craps.From the entry outpost
  • Craps involves someone rolling the dice (a shooter) and additional bettors.2015, Steven Lott, Functional Python Programming, page 276. From the entry shooter
  • The other day, while at a craps table at Argosy, I saw a 12-11-10 countdown.2005, R. D. Ellison, Gamble to Win Advanced Craps, Lyle Stuart, Kensington Publishing Corp., →ISBN, page 109. From the entry stickwoman
  • "As an inventor," Bob Mason suggested, "you're a howling success at shooting craps![1920], Peter B[ernhard] Kyne, chapter XII, in The Understanding Heart, Toronto, Ont.: The Copp Clark Co., →OCLC, page 202. From the entry spavin
  • The gambler's chances of winning at blackjack, craps, roulette and even the slot and videopoker machines vary greatly among the casinos.1990, Jerry L Patterson, Blackjack, a winner's handbook. From the entry videopoker
  • Before long, Zarin developed a reputation as an extravagant "high roller" who routinely bet the house maximum while playing craps, his game of choice.1990 October 10, Robert Cowen (Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit), Zarin v. Commissioner, archived from…. From the entry high roller
  • At the Olympus Mons Casino on Mar's they have craps games where the die are rhombic dodecahedron (12 sided), or tetrakis hexahedron (24 sides) or deltoidal icositetrahedron (24 sides).2012, Ivan Pasztor, Of All The Things I've Lost, page 69. From the entry deltoidal icositetrahedron
  • For the past century or so the most popular gambling games have been the card games of poker, stook and blackjack, and the dice games of craps and barbotte.1988, James H Marsh, The Canadian encyclopedia. From the entry barbotte
  • They started out dealing craps in my uncle's joint and I've used both of them as bust-out men in my joint and I know he got beat.1969, Bruce Jackson, A Thief's Primer, page 165. From the entry bust-out man

Meaning of craps

  1. noun A game of gambling, or chance, where the players throw dice to make scores and avoid crap.
  2. noun (preceded by the) diarrhea.

Full definition of craps

Questions about craps in a sentence

How do you use craps in a sentence?
Craps is used as a noun. For example: “Sgt. Smith fleeced most of the rest of the outpost of their earnings in their weekly game of craps.”
What is a short sentence with craps?
“What's the haps on the craps?”
What does craps mean?
Craps means a game of gambling, or chance, where the players throw dice to make scores and avoid crap.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: craps (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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