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crappy

adjectivecommon in dialogue

  • United States//ˈkɹæpi//

Of very poor quality; unpleasant; distasteful.

adjective

  1. 1

    Of very poor quality; unpleasant; distasteful.

    That is such a crappy car.

    The referee just made a really crappy call.

    The food there used to be good but now it's crappy.

    Think of the content mill as a modern-day literary sweatshop—writers hunkering down at hot keyboards, plowing away at 3,000 word articles for, literally, pennies. Content mills were born because someone figured out that by targeting popular search result terms, they could commission an army of crappy posts catering to these terms and dominate Google's results.

  2. 2

    Bad, sick, or depressed.

    I'm feeling really crappy - I think I need some fresh air.

  3. 3

    Covered in crap (faeces/feces).

    Put the crappy diapers in the brown pail and the wet ones in the yellow pail.

Etymology

Etymology tree Old Dutch krappender. Old French crappe Middle French crapebor. Middle English crappe English crap Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English crappy From crap + -y.

Forms

comparative
crappier
superlative
crappiest
The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

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).