Cap vs. Crap — What's the Difference?

A cap is a kind of soft and flat headgear, usually with a visor. Caps have crowns that fit very close to the head.

Something of extremely poor quality.

A kind of soft, flat hat without a brim and typically with a peak

Excrement.

A protective lid or cover for an object such as a bottle, the point of a pen, or a camera lens

A losing throw of 2, 3, or 12 in craps.

An upper limit imposed on spending or borrowing

Defecate.

A contraceptive diaphragm.

Talk at length in a foolish or boring way.

The broad upper part of the fruiting body of most mushrooms and toadstools, at the top of a stem and bearing gills or pores.

Make a losing throw at craps

Short for percussion cap

Extremely poor in quality.

Short for capitalization

Excrement.

Put a lid or cover on

An act of defecating.

Provide a fitting climax or conclusion to

Foolish, deceitful, or boastful language.

Place a limit or restriction on (prices, expenditure, or borrowing)

Cheap or shoddy material.

Be chosen as a member of a particular sports team, especially a national one

Miscellaneous or disorganized items; clutter.

Confer a university degree on.

Insolent talk or behavior.

A usually soft and close-fitting head covering, either having no brim or with a visor.

Used for intensive effect in idioms such as beat the crap out of (someone) for beat (someone) very badly.

A special head covering worn to indicate rank, occupation, or membership in a particular group

See craps.

An academic mortarboard. Used especially in the phrase cap and gown.

A losing first throw in the game of craps.

A protective cover or seal, especially one that closes off an end or a tip

To defecate.

A crown for covering or sealing a tooth.

To make a losing throw in the game of craps. Usually used with out.

A truck cap.

Used to express anger or displeasure.

A tread for a worn pneumatic tire.

(obsolete) The husk of grain; chaff.

A fitted covering used to seal a well or large pipe.

Something worthless or of poor quality; junk.

Chiefly Southern US See eye.

Nonsense; something untrue.

A summit or top, as of a mountain.

Faeces/feces.

An upper limit; a ceiling

An act of defecation.

(Architecture) The capital of a column.

A losing throw of 2, 3, or 12 in craps.

The top part, or pileus, of a mushroom.

To defecate.

A calyptra.

To defecate in or on (clothing etc.).

A percussion cap.

To bullshit. Also Australia?

A small explosive charge enclosed in paper for use in a toy gun.

Of poor quality.

Any of several sizes of writing paper, such as foolscap.

(slang) Expression of worry, fear, shock, surprise, disgust, annoyance, or dismay.

(Sports) An appearance by a player in an international soccer game, traditionally rewarded with a hat.

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. Also called craps.

A capital letter.

Same as excrement and feces.

Capital

Nonsense; balderdash; bullshit; - also used as an expletive.

Capitalization

To defecate. Same as take a crap.

To cover, protect, or seal with a cap.

Obscene terms for feces

To award a special cap to as a sign of rank or achievement

Obscene words for unacceptable behavior;

To lie over or on top of; cover

Have a bowel movement;

To apply the finishing touch to; complete

To follow with something better; surpass or outdo

To set an upper limit on

To capitalize.

A close-fitting hat, either brimless or peaked.

A special hat to indicate rank, occupation, etc.

An academic mortarboard.

A protective cover or seal.

A crown for covering a tooth.

The summit of a mountain, etc.

An artificial upper limit or ceiling.

The top part of a mushroom.

(toy) A small amount of percussive explosive in a paper strip or plastic cup for use in a toy gun.

A small explosive device used to detonate a larger charge of explosives.

(slang) A bullet used to shoot someone.

A lie or exaggeration.

(sport) A place on a national team; an international appearance.

(obsolete) The top, or uppermost part; the chief.

(obsolete) A respectful uncovering of the head.

(zoology) The whole top of the head of a bird from the base of the bill to the nape of the neck.

(architecture) The uppermost of any assemblage of parts.

Something covering the top or end of a thing for protection or ornament.

(nautical) A collar of iron or wood used in joining spars, as the mast and the topmast, the bowsprit and the jib boom; also, a covering of tarred canvas at the end of a rope.

(geometry) A portion of a spherical or other convex surface.

A large size of writing paper.

(finance) Capitalization.

(informal) An uppercase or capital letter.

(electronics) A capacitor.

(colloquial) A recording or screenshot.

(slang) A capsule of a drug.

(colloquial) A capitalist.

Capillary

(obsolete) A wooden drinking-bowl with two handles.

(transitive) To cover or seal with a cap.

(transitive) To award a cap as a mark of distinction.

(transitive) To lie over or on top of something.

(transitive) To surpass or outdo.

(transitive) To set an upper limit on something.

(transitive) To make something even more wonderful at the end.

To select a player to play for a specified side.

To shoot (someone) with a firearm.

To lie; to tell a lie.

To select to play for the national team.

To salute by uncovering the head respectfully.

To deprive of a cap.

To convert text to uppercase.

(transitive) To take a screenshot or to record a copy of a video.

A covering for the head

The top, or uppermost part; the chief.

A respectful uncovering of the head.

The whole top of the head of a bird from the base of the bill to the nape of the neck.

Anything resembling a cap in form, position, or use

A large size of writing paper; as, flat cap; foolscap; legal cap.

To cover with a cap, or as with a cap; to provide with a cap or cover; to cover the top or end of; to place a cap upon the proper part of; as, to cap a post; to cap a gun.

To deprive of cap.

To complete; to crown; to bring to the highest point or consummation; as, to cap the climax of absurdity.

To salute by removing the cap.

To match; to mate in contest; to furnish a complement to; as, to cap text; to cap proverbs.

To uncover the head respectfully.

A tight-fitting headdress

A top (as for a bottle)

A mechanical or electrical explosive device or a small amount of explosive; can be used to initiate the reaction of a disrupting explosive

Something serving as a cover or protection

A fruiting structure resembling an umbrella that forms the top of a stalked fleshy fungus such as a mushroom

An upper limit on what is allowed;

Dental appliance consisting of an artificial crown for a tooth

The upper part of a column that supports the entablature

Lie at the top of;

Restrict the number or amount of;