Thieves’ cant. [a. Du. krap cramp, clamp, clasp.] The gallows.
1812. J. H. Vaux, Flash Dict., Crap, the gallows.
1829. Lytton, Disowned, 8. But our wealth is as free of the bailiff’s see, As our necks of the twisting crap.
1834. H. Ainsworth, Rookwood, III. v. If he come to the crap.
Hence Crap v. trans., to hang.
1781. G. Parker, View Soc., II. 30 (Farmer). Sentencing some more to be crapped.
1812. J. H. Vaux, Flash Dict., Crap’d, hanged.
Crap, Sc. dial. f. CROP sb. and v.
Crap, obs. and Sc. pa. t. of CREEP.
