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say it: KRAP-shoot
crapshoot is a noun meaning "a risky and uncertain venture". It is pronounced /ˈkɹæpˌʃut/ — KRAP-shoot. It carries 2 recorded senses.
a risky and uncertain venture
“getting admitted to the college of your choice has become a crapshoot”
colloquialism
playing craps
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for crapshoot come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.