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...called crabs, and to throw one of those numbers was to crab. In France the game of hazard was called krabs, and is so called in a long description of the game in the third volume of the Mathématiques group of the Encyclopeédic Méthodiqué, dates 1792. Craps as we know it today is simply a French simplification of hazard, or krabs, and the word craps, originally spelled creps or kreps, is a corruption of the English crabs. It is so defined in every French dictionary to which I have had access, including...
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