Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A toilet.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun vulgar a toilet.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun dated A water closet containing a flushable toilet, especially a toilet fixture identified "T. Crapper", a well known Victorian-era English engineer and plumbing installer, Thomas Crapper.
  • noun slang A flush toilet, a commode.
  • noun A privy, an outhouse.
  • adjective comparative form of crap: more crap

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[From crap.]

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Examples

  • Actually I found out from a "source" of mine what the crapper is doing on thi middle of nowhere .....

    The Creepy Crapshack Story Contest 2010

  • Actually I found out from a "source" of mine what the crapper is doing on thi middle of nowhere .....

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  • And the economy in the crapper is a recruiter's wet dream.

    WHAT REALLY HAPPENED 2009

  • Of course, there's alwas the possibility that cramming the economy down the crapper is The Plan, rather than mere incompetence.

    Hot Air » Top Picks 2009

  • The seat of the crapper was a solid 28″ high, and the latrine hole went a solid

    Neanderpundit 2008

  • I'd love to flush all of it down the crapper, which is where we are headed, to have some martini's with the Tidy Bowl Man.

    Newsvine - Get Smarter Here 2008

  • I know he's doing this for reasons I am not privy to; still, the difference between intelligently working the political game so as to maximize personal effectiveness and whoring yourself out to the shits who put the country in the crapper is a thin one at times.

    Let's Hate! Sean Craven 2009

  • I know he's doing this for reasons I am not privy to; still, the difference between intelligently working the political game so as to maximize personal effectiveness and whoring yourself out to the shits who put the country in the crapper is a thin one at times.

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  • Yes, I enjoyed the occasional "crapper" a term Aunt M-mv coined to describe books for perusal in the... well, you get the idea.

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  • Yes, I enjoyed the occasional "crapper" a term Aunt M-mv coined to describe books for perusal in the... well, you get the idea.

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  • "It snowed like a Norwegian Snow Crapper yetserday" - Kenny reporting on the weather from Colorado.

    March 31, 2007