The word "crapper" is usable in written English, but it is informal and somewhat vulgar.
It can be used in casual contexts, often to refer to a toilet or bathroom. Example: "I really need to find a crapper before the movie starts." Alternatives include "toilet" or "bathroom."
The crapper, the better: these straight-to-DVD numbers are hilariously awful.
I, on the other hand, was lowbrow as a beer hall crapper".
When asked by a reporter what he would do to grow the economy, Bush laughed ruefully and said, "Well, I guess if I said that I'd do exactly what my brother did and drive the whole thing straight into the crapper, you folks would have a field day with that, wouldn't you?
"We have a 767 scheduled to be here just in case the thing goes down the crapper," he told the crowd during a reception at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport.
"He'll be cheered by 44,131 fans — and it's not even a risky crowd, the kind that might get testy because oil isn't worth a damn, Houston's economy is down the crapper, and no one's buying aluminum siding," Mr. Cramer wrote.
"And cows are relatively benign crappers," Roberts points out; hogs — mass-produced to meet the demand for bacon on everything — are more prolific.
Furnished with only a bed and a light, it was innocent of heat at night, with no showers in evidence, only lavatories and crappers.
Yes I know King Minos of Crete had a flushing toilet of sorts more than two and a half thousand years before Thomas Crapper was born and the Carthaginians also had private bathrooms, but there are still people around today who remember the outside privy and the metal tub in front of the fire.
A candidate for "Jeopardy" or "Millionaire," though, might benefit from the site's link to the Toilet Paper Encyclopedia, a compendium of facts like where and when toilet paper made its first appearance (China, 1391), and who invented the flush toilet (nope, not Thomas Crapper, but Sir John Harington in 1596).
The camera pans across a tree-laden Chelsea street before closing in on the shopfront of Thomas Crapper ("By Appointment To The Late King George V Sanitary Engineers").
