take a crap

1. 1.

   have a bowel movement

   “The dog had made in the flower beds”

   Synonymsstooldefecateshittake a shitca-cacrapmake

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Questions about take a crap

What does take a crap mean?

take a crap means "have a bowel movement".

What is another word for take a crap?

Close synonyms include stool, defecate, shit, take a shit, ca-ca. 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 take a crap a common word?

take a crap 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.