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Craps   /kræps/   Listen
Craps

noun
1.
Expressions used when when two dice are thrown and both come up showing one spot.  Synonym: snake eyes.
2.
A gambling game played with two dice; a first throw of 7 or 11 wins and a first throw of 2, 3, or 12 loses and a first throw of any other number must be repeated to win before a 7 is thrown, which loses the bet and the dice.



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"Craps" Quotes from Famous Books



... Europe he drifted; and instantly and everywhere appeared the awful Yankee—shooting wells in Hungary, shooting craps in Monaco, digging antiques in Greece, digging tunnels in Servia,—everywhere the Yankee, drilling, bridging, constructing, exploring, pushing, arguing, quarrelling, insisting, telegraphing, gambling, ...
— Athalie • Robert W. Chambers

... craps way short; the rills Couldn't turn the silent mills; But the light's behind the ...
— It Can Be Done - Poems of Inspiration • Joseph Morris

... was Eddie Brandes; his first fortune of three dollars was amassed at craps; he became a hanger-on in ward politics, at race-tracks, stable, club, squared ring, vaudeville, burlesque. Long Acre attracted him—but always the gambling end ...
— The Dark Star • Robert W. Chambers

... a stranger shows up here who don't know nobody, he never sees nothing and he don't never learn nothing. He gets no hootch outa me. No, nor no craps and no cards. He gets his supper; that's what he gets ... and a dance, if there's ladies—and if any girl favours him. That's all the change any stranger gets ...
— The Flaming Jewel • Robert W. Chambers

... to spend money to get craps," said Mike; "look at our corn and pertaters. They is fust rate, and when we sends our craps to market, there won't be much to take for 'spenses out ...
— The Girl at Cobhurst • Frank Richard Stockton

... game played with dice, which is often popular in the men's coat and smoking-rooms before and during formal receptions, balls, recitals, etcetera. It should not be imagined, however, that "craps" is a sport for men only; on the contrary, smart women are enthusiastically taking up this sport in numerous localities, and many an affair which started as a dinner party or a musicale has ended in a crap game, with all the guests seated in an excited circle on the ...
— Perfect Behavior - A Guide for Ladies and Gentlemen in all Social Crises • Donald Ogden Stewart

... the wide doors of the gambling hall the scene amazed him. There were forty tables running—roulette, blackjack, craps, stud poker—and round them men crowded three to five deep. Down the full length of one side of the room ran a bar nearly a hundred and fifty feet long, and in the rear end of the great barnlike structure thirty or ...
— The Desert Fiddler • William H. Hamby

... flat-roofed and coated with plaster. Over the sidewalks extended wooden awnings, beneath which opened very wide doors into the coolness of saloons. Each of these places ran a bar, and also games of roulette, faro, craps, and stud poker. Even this early in the morning ...
— Arizona Nights • Stewart Edward White



Words linked to "Craps" :   plural form, natural, crap shooting, 2, gambling game, roll, deuce, crap game, plural, ii, cast, game of chance, two



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