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A gambling game with dice. [Local, U.S.]

In the game of craps, a first throw of the dice in which the total is two, three, or twelve, in which case the caster loses.

Same as Craps.

Soiled; sullied; of a dark or dusky color; dark brown; dirty. "Scraps of dingy paper." Macaulay.

r gayety; to sing with spirit and liveliness. A classic lecture, rich in sentiment, With scraps of thundrous epic lilted out By violet-hooded doctors. Tennyson.

[Obs.] Jer. Taylor. -- Odds and ends, that which is left; remnants; fragments; refuse; scraps; miscellaneous articles. "My brain is filled...with all kinds of odds and ends." W. Irving.

eg. [R.] If his questing had been unsuccessful, he appeased the rage of hunger with some scraps of broken meat. Macaulay.

ering the will. "In great rage of pain." Bacon. He appeased the rage of hunger with some scraps of broken meat. Macaulay. Convulsed with a rage of grief. Hawthorne.

portion; a remnant. Chaucer. Wyclif. The relics of lost innocence. Kebe. The fragments, scraps, the bits and greasy relics. Shak.

The crisp substance that remains after trying out animal fat; as, pork scraps.

In a scrappy manner; in scraps. Mary Cowden Clarke.

An article of food made by boiling together bits or scraps of meat, usually pork, and flour or Indian meal.

Consisting of scraps; fragmentary; lacking unity or consistency; as, a scrappy lecture. A dreadfully scrappy dinner. Thackeray.

Mottled pottery made from scraps of differently colored clays.

Thunderous; sonorous. "Scraps of thunderous epic." Tennyson.