to crap one's pants
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- idiom
- /kræp wʌnz pænts/
- Offensive
:
cagarse de miedo
- When the rollercoaster suddenly dropped, I nearly crap my pants from fear.
Examples
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When the thunder struck so close to the house, I almost crapped my pants.
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Seeing the giant spider in the corner made her crap her pants with fright.
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He crapped his pants when he realized he had missed the final exam.
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If you ever saw a bear in your backyard, you'd probably crap your pants too.
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The loud explosion made everyone in the crowd crap their pants in shock.
Synonyms
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To become very upset or afraid suddenly and lose control
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To be very scared or surprised in a rude, informal way
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To feel very frightened or surprised and often accidentally poop yourself
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To accidentally pass solid waste into your underwear because of fear or sickness
To suddenly become very shocked or frightened
To become very scared
To be so frightened that you almost wet yourself
Poop in your clothes by accident because you are very scared or shocked
To accidentally dirty your clothes with waste from your body because of fear, shock, or strong excitement
To accidentally pee or poo in your clothes because you are very scared
To accidentally wet your clothes because you feel very scared, very excited, or laugh too hard
To accidentally pee in your clothes from fear, laughter, or embarrassment
Antonyms
How Scared
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- Offensive
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning ('to soil one's pants' or be extremely frightened) follows directly from combining 'crap' (to defecate) with 'one's pants' (clothing) — a literal bodily-action construction whose figurative extension (extreme fear) is predictable from the parts. Although colloquial and vulgar, the composition is transparent and a B1 learner who knows the constituent words would likely infer the expression's meaning.
Etymology
Crap one's pants comes from the strong image of someone so scared they accidentally poop in their trousers. The word crap means to poop and pants are trousers, so the phrase means 'to be very frightened or shocked'.