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Meanings of crapshoot in English

Playing craps.

A risky venture with an uncertain outcome.

Usage of crapshoot in English
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But you know as well as I do it's a crapshoot elsewhere.
Speaking in Bones
2
It's a crapshoot, no plates and all in a city this size.
Frozen Heat
3
Arranged marriage is not just a crapshoot, as many believe it to be.
The mango season
4
Understanding Dry Treatments Until this year, rope dry treatments were sort of a crapshoot.
Climbing Magazine
5
The edges thinned and it was a crapshoot as to which ones would hold.
Rock and Ice Magazine
6
Haas warns that preparing for Y2K is ultimately a crapshoot.
Wired
7
It's kind of a crapshoot after a certain point.
The Guardian
8
The way Doc saw things, it was a crapshoot.
I'll never get out of this world alive
9
It's too much of a lottery, too much of a crapshoot, Brown told the summit.
Reuters
10
Flu vaccines are always a bit of a crapshoot.
Wired
11
It really was a crapshoot at this point.
Stand by your hitman
12
Rebirth, when it comes, will be a crapshoot.
Running with the Demon
13
You win, you lose, it's a total crapshoot.
World war z: an oral history of the zombie war
14
Which made life a hell of a crapshoot.
Calamity jayne
15
Though it may be a crapshoot on the future of network computers, there's a potential for payoff.
Wired
16
It's a crapshoot from here on in.
The Guardian
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