CRAPSHOOTS Synonyms: 19 Similar and Opposite Words

crapshoots

noun

plural of crapshoot

as in chances

a risky undertaking there are almost no sure bets in the movie business—almost everything is a crapshoot

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Recent Examples of crapshoots Schools like Stanford, Harvard, CMU, University of Chicago, Caltech and MIT are extreme crapshoots even for students at the very top of their class. — Jess Marmor Shaw, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Oct. 2024

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Noun

Skies will become partly sunny, and rain chances will drop considerably.

— Baltimore Sun staff, Baltimore Sun, 6 July 2026
The second half started much like the first half, as both teams created occasional chances, with most of the action coming from the Spanish.

— Kyle Feldscher, CNN Money, 6 July 2026

Definition of chances

Noun

LaMelo Ball is teaming up with Anthony Edwards after one of Tim Connelly’s boldest gambles yet.

— Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 26 June 2026
Drawing on generations of Chinatown family lore and silences, See turns China City’s vanished streets and her ancestors’ immigrant gambles into a historical fiction layered with stories of survival and belonging.

— Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2026

Definition of gambles

Noun

Most of the gains came from his cryptocurrency company, World Liberty Financial, and other digital currency ventures.

— Shirsho Dasgupta, Miami Herald, 7 July 2026
The series will track four generations of the Tata family, beginning with founder Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata, whose ventures included Tata Steel, the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel and groundwork for the Indian Institute of Science.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 7 July 2026

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