crank the handle
to do something repetitive and uninteresting
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crank up
to increase or start something, especially an engine or activity
cranky
Foolish, idiotic, rickety, capricious (not confined to persons). Ancient cant, CRANKE, simulated sickness. German, KRANK, sickly. A CRANK or CRANKY vessel is one which pitches very much.
crap
Something worthless or of poor quality; junk.
crap
To ease oneself by evacuation.
crap up
to spoil or ruin something
crapping case
Or KEN, the water-closet. Generally called CRAPPING-CASTLE.
craptastical
Craptastic.
CRAPTCHA
A CAPTCHA.
crash and burn
To fail completely and spectacularly
crash course
Intensive training or instruction in a short period
crash dive
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
craw thumper
A Roman Catholic. Compare BRISKET-BEATER.
craw thumpers
Roman catholics, so called from their beating their breasts in the confession of their sins. See BRISKET BEATER, and BREAST FLEET.
crawl before one walks
Learn basic skills before attempting more complex ones
crawl into a hole
To hide or withdraw from a situation
crawl over each other
Compete fiercely for something
crawl with
to be filled or infested with something
crawler
A mean, contemptible, sycophantic fellow. Also a cab which is driven slowly along while its driver looks out for a fare. Crawling is by recent statute a punishable offence.
crawly mawly
In an ailing, weakly, or sickly state.
cray
Crazy.
cray-cray
Crazy.
craytur
creature (a wretch).
crazy enough to work
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
crazy-ass
Very crazy.
cream and sugar
milk and sugar added to coffee or tea
cream in one's coffee
something that adds pleasure or enjoyment
cream in one's jeans
to be extremely excited or thrilled
cream of the crop
The best of a particular group or set
cream of the valley
gin
cream rises to the top
Talent and quality are eventually recognized
cream the crop
The best of something
cream-pot love
Such as young fellows pretend to dairymaids, to get cream and other good things from them.
creature comfort
Things that bring physical comfort and pleasure
creature feature
a movie featuring monsters or supernatural creatures
creature of statute
An entity created by law or statute
creature of the night
A person who is most active at night
Credence Table
The table near the altar on which the bread and wine are deposited before they are consecrated. In former times food was placed on a credence- table to be tasted previously to its being set before the guests. This was done to assure the guests that the meat was not poisoned. (Ital. credenza, a shelf or buffet.) Credit Foncier (kra' de fong' si a).
credit card
Common English phrase; full definition pending editorial review.
credit card slot
The vulva.
creepazoid
Creepy.
creepers
Gentlemen's companions, lice.
creeping barrage
A curtain of artillery fire moving forward on a time schedule.
creepoid
Creepy.
Crescent City
The descriptive name in the U.S.A. for New Orleans.
crescent fresh
Very fresh.
crescent spanner
a flexible and adjustable wrench
Cretins of the Alps
The word is a corruption of Christian (Chretien), because, being bap- tized, and only idiots, they were "washed from original sm," and incapable of actual sin. Similarly, idiots are called innocents. (Fr. cretin.
crevice
The vagina.
crew
A knot or gang; also a boat or ship's company. The canting crew are thus divided into twenty-three orders, which see under the different words:
Crewel Garters
Garters made of worsted or yarn. Ha! ha! look, he wears cruel garters.
crib
A house. To crack a crib: to break open a house.
crib
House, public or otherwise; lodgings, apartments; a situation. Very general in the latter sense.
crib biter
An inveterate grumbler; properly said of a horse which has this habit, a sign of its bad digestion.
cribbage-faced
Marked with the small pox, the pits bearing a kind of resemblance to the holes in a cribbage-board.
cribbage-faced
Marked with the small-pox, full of holes like a cribbage-board. Otherwise crumpet-face.
crikey
Profane exclamation of astonishment; "Oh, CRIKEY, you don’t say so!" corruption of "O Christ!" Sometimes varied by "O crimes!"
crim
CON. MONEY. Damages directed by a jury to be paid by a convicted adulterer to the injured husband, for criminal conversation with his wife.
crime and punishment
A fixed-order word pair (irreversible binomial); full definition pending editorial review.
crime does not pay
Engaging in illegal activities will ultimately result in negative consequences.
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