crap-shooter

1. 1.

   a gambler who throws dice in the game of craps

   Synonymsshooter

   Broadergambler

Questions about crap-shooter

What does crap-shooter mean?

crap-shooter means "a gambler who throws dice in the game of craps".

How many syllables are in crap-shooter?

crap-shooter has 3 syllables: crap--shoo-ter. The stress falls on "crap-".

What is another word for crap-shooter?

Close synonyms include shooter. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is crap-shooter a common word?

crap-shooter is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.