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Craps

noun

Expressions used when when two dice are thrown and both come up showing one spot. Synonym: snake eyes.

A gambling game played with two dice; a first throw of 7 or 11 wins and a first throw of 2, 3, or 12 loses and a first throw of any other number must be repeated to win before a 7 is thrown, which loses the bet and the dice.

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"Craps" Quotes from Famous Books

... as its first lesson, and stealing as the next. The two are never far apart. From shooting craps behind the "cop's" back to filching from the grocer's stock or plundering a defenceless pedler is only a step. There is in both the spice of law-breaking that appeals to the shallow ambition of the street as heroic. ...

— The Battle with the Slum • Jacob A. Riis

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