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Chris -- 2025-05-10
I’ve seen people use ‘Crap Chute’ for ‘Crap Shoot.’ The latter, meaning (I presume) the chancy roll of the dice in a game of Craps, referring to a risky endeavour or a questionable pursuit. It’s been eggcorned into crap chute, so if something is a crap chute it isn’t worth partaking of.
A google search reveals that others have pointed out this bit of wordplay but I think it’s a legit eggcorn.
In use:
“this course stinks i work at royal american and it is tentimes as good as this place this place is a crap chute” (http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:JKN … clnk&cd=35)
“Camden, no pride in saying that, I’ve seen it, I’ve been there, it’s not a nice place to be. It doesn’t matter if you are rich or poor, that place is a crap chute.”
(http://www.tranceaddict.com/forums/show … 2-p-4.html)
“Sunday’s weather looks like a crap chute either way.”
http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/pu … ssage/6096
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I like this one a lot. In fact, I would place it among my top 10 favorites.
Earlier, I challenged people to find another example of two juxtaposed words that morph to a new meaning. The example which I presented was the transformation of “visualize world peace” to “visualize whirled peas”. The current example virtually achieves that task, for both words are replaced with a new meaning when one transforms “crap shoot” to “crap chute.”
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