Lexic.us

Definition of Crap shooting

1. Noun. Playing craps.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Crap Shooting

Literary usage of Crap shooting

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. How Uncle Sam Fights;: Or, Modern Warfare- how Conducted by A. C. Parkerson (1898)
"Two or three times every month, however, the crap-shooting is momentarily forgotten in the excitement of a cock-fight. Cocking mains are common in Manila ..."

2. War Expenditures: Abstract of Testimony Before Subcommittee No. 2 (camps) of by United States Congress. House Select Committee on Expenditures in the War Dept (1920)
"I think there was crap shooting all over the camp. ... Finally there was an order issued against crap shooting on Government property. ..."

3. A Treatise on the Law of Instructions to Juries in Civil and Criminal Cases by Henry Edward Randall (1922)
"... which would be this defendant, if he lost his money in said saloon and by that method of crap shooting and gaming, a right to recover the same in action ..."

4. The Journal of American Folk-lore by American Folklore Society (1920)
"... he was crap-shooting, and Webb Gudgin was behind a rock with a Winchester, and it is supposed that if Hardy didn't get the man that he was there with a ..."

5. The Settlement horizon: A National Estimateby Kennedy, Albert Joseph, Robert Archey Woods by Kennedy, Albert Joseph, Robert Archey Woods (1922)
"... zestful sort and by stimulating a neighborhood sense of public disgrace attaching to every crap-shooting circle.1 Permanent improvement demands a ..."

6. How Uncle Sam Fights;: Or, Modern Warfare- how Conducted by A. C. Parkerson (1898)
"Two or three times every month, however, the crap-shooting is momentarily forgotten in the excitement of a cock-fight. Cocking mains are common in Manila ..."

7. War Expenditures: Abstract of Testimony Before Subcommittee No. 2 (camps) of by United States Congress. House Select Committee on Expenditures in the War Dept (1920)
"I think there was crap shooting all over the camp. ... Finally there was an order issued against crap shooting on Government property. ..."

8. A Treatise on the Law of Instructions to Juries in Civil and Criminal Cases by Henry Edward Randall (1922)
"... which would be this defendant, if he lost his money in said saloon and by that method of crap shooting and gaming, a right to recover the same in action ..."

9. The Journal of American Folk-lore by American Folklore Society (1920)
"... he was crap-shooting, and Webb Gudgin was behind a rock with a Winchester, and it is supposed that if Hardy didn't get the man that he was there with a ..."

10. The Settlement horizon: A National Estimateby Kennedy, Albert Joseph, Robert Archey Woods by Kennedy, Albert Joseph, Robert Archey Woods (1922)
"... zestful sort and by stimulating a neighborhood sense of public disgrace attaching to every crap-shooting circle.1 Permanent improvement demands a ..."

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