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what the crap

what the crap phrase: an intensive form of what.

Phrase

what the crap

  1. (mildly, slang, vulgar) An intensive form of what.
    • There's a duck in my car. What the crap?
    • Timothy woke up. "What the crap," he said. "Can't you let a guy get some sleep?"2011, Robert Silverberg, The Book Of Skulls, Orion Publishing Group

Examples of what the crap in a sentence

  • "I am thinking, 'What the crap am I doing out here at 4 a.m.?'"2013 November 29, Jere Downs, The Courier-Journal, page A8:
  • And tell them if they want me to tell them privately what the crap I think of them, I’ll do that.2016 January 30, Andrew Carter, The News & Observer, page 4B:

Synonyms of what the crap

Questions about what the crap

What does what the crap mean?
What the crap means an intensive form of what.
How do you use what the crap in a sentence?
"I am thinking, 'What the crap am I doing out here at 4 a.m.?'"
What part of speech is what the crap?
What the crap is a phrase.

Words near what the crap in the dictionary

  1. what tangled webs we weave when first we practice to deceive
  2. what that mouth do
  3. what the
  4. what the actual fuck
  5. what the butler saw
  6. what the crap
  7. what the cuss
  8. what the deuce
  9. what the Devil
  10. what the doctor ordered
  11. what the ef

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