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Kraut

nounattested in dialogue

  • Canada//kɹʌʊt//
  • //kɹaʊt//

A German.

noun

  1. 1

    slangA German.

    Those Krauts can't hurt you anymore. The only ones left are dead or dying.

Etymology

From German Kraut (“cabbage”), alluding to the use of cabbage as an ingredient in German cuisine (namely sauerkraut). First use appears c. 1833–1837, but popularized during the First and Second World Wars.

Forms

plural
Krauts
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).