- crapper
- noun Etymology: 1crap Date: circa 1932 usually vulgar toilet
New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.
crapper
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crapper — crap per (kr[a^]p p[ e]r), n. a toilet. [vulgar] Syn: toilet, can, commode, pot, potty, stool, throne. [WordNet 1.5 + PJC] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
crapper — [krap′ər] n. [< CRAP2] Slang TOILET (n. 4): somewhat vulgar … English World dictionary
Crapper — The person to whom we are indebted for the flushing toilet is Thomas Crapper, the scatologists favorite son. Sir Thomas Crapper (1837 1910) was born in Yorkshire, England. In the 1870s, he invented the modern toilet bowl, which consisted of … Dictionary of eponyms
crapper — 1. n. a toilet, privy, or restroom. (Usually objectionable. See also crap.) □ Where’s the crapper around here? □ Old Jed never passes up a chance to use an indoor crapper. 2. n. a braggart. (Usually objectionable.) □ The guy is a crapper and… … Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions
crapper — (the crapper) n a toilet. This vulgarism appears to derive from crap and not from the name of Tho mas Crapper, a Victorian manufacturer of lavatories who is claimed to be the inven tor of the flush toilet … Contemporary slang
crapper — In American slang this would mean a person who regularly boasts about his own achievements, exaggerating them while doing so. He is something of a bullshit artist, to use another American expression, when it comes to self advertisement. In… … A dictionary of epithets and terms of address
crapper — noun a) A water closet containing a flushable toilet, especially a toilet fixture identified T. Crapper , a well known Victorian era English engineer and plumbing installer, . b) A flush toilet, a commode … Wiktionary
Crapper — This unusual and interesting name is of early medieval origin and is generally an occupational surname for a picker of fruit or vegetables or a reaper of corn. The derivation is from the Olde English pre 7th Century word cropp meaning swelling ,… … Surnames reference
Crapper — toilet (from crap; not, as widely believed, named after the sanitary engineer Thomas Crapper) … Dictionary of Australian slang
crapper — Australian Slang toilet (from crap; not, as widely believed, named after the sanitary engineer Thomas Crapper) … English dialects glossary
crapper — crap|per [ˈkræpə US ər] n informal not polite the crapper a toilet … Dictionary of contemporary English
