Explore Crapshoot through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like risk or peril. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Crapshoot in a sentence
Crapshoot meaning
- A game of craps.
- A venture with a highly risky or unpredictable outcome.
Using Crapshoot
- The main meaning on this page is: A game of craps. | A venture with a highly risky or unpredictable outcome.
- Useful related words include: risk, peril, danger, crap shooting.
- In the example corpus, crapshoot often appears in combinations such as: is crapshoot, crapshoot of.
Context around Crapshoot
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 8 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 10 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Crapshoot
- In this selection, "crapshoot" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, hot, wild, play, once and given stand out and add context to how "crapshoot" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a wild crapshoot of a and and play crapshoot to see. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "crapshoot" sits close to words such as aab, aamer and aave, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with crapshoot
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Native cuisine is a crapshoot, often literally. (7 words)
It’s a crapshoot once you get that low. (9 words)
Social get-togethers might happen spontaneously or instead, they might be canceled because today is a crapshoot. (17 words)
It's fitting the Jets are again playing the Flames in what may seem like a crapshoot, given how evenly matched the teams appeared to be at the end of the truncated regular season — and how unfamiliar they are with each other now. (43 words)
For the longest time, the tight end spot on your fantasy team has been a plug-and-play crapshoot to see which player could get more than the typical 2.50 to 6.40 points, unless you have a healthy Rob Gronkowski. (42 words)
This may seem like whistling past the legal graveyard, but going to court is always enough of a crapshoot that one supposes we ought to reserve our collective judgment until the Alberta Court of Appeal renders its. (37 words)
Big 10 Basketball is a crapshoot, so let’s shoot craps to determine where Indiana and Purdue finish! (18 words)
Example sentences (11)
Brought on largely by a get-in-and-get-hot crapshoot of a playoff format that’s as unpredictable as it is frustrating for fans of clubs like the Dodgers.
If the Trojans play up to their potential, they should be perfect during their 12-game regular season, setting themselves up for a wild crapshoot of a postseason.
It’s a crapshoot once you get that low.
Big 10 Basketball is a crapshoot, so let’s shoot craps to determine where Indiana and Purdue finish!
It's fitting the Jets are again playing the Flames in what may seem like a crapshoot, given how evenly matched the teams appeared to be at the end of the truncated regular season — and how unfamiliar they are with each other now.
Social get-togethers might happen spontaneously or instead, they might be canceled because today is a crapshoot.
It’s still a crapshoot as to whether the player stays on top when I’m trying to do something else at the same time.
This may seem like whistling past the legal graveyard, but going to court is always enough of a crapshoot that one supposes we ought to reserve our collective judgment until the Alberta Court of Appeal renders its.
For the longest time, the tight end spot on your fantasy team has been a plug-and-play crapshoot to see which player could get more than the typical 2.50 to 6.40 points, unless you have a healthy Rob Gronkowski.
Native cuisine is a crapshoot, often literally.
In popular culture Due to the random nature of the game, in popular culture "a crapshoot" is often used to describe an action with an unpredictable outcome.
Common combinations with crapshoot
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- is crapshoot 3×
- crapshoot of 2×