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craptacular (comparative more craptacular, superlative most craptacular)

1. (US, slang, vulgar) Spectacularly awful; so poor in quality as to become a spectacle.

   Synonyms: crapperific, craptabulous, craptastic; see also Thesaurus:low-quality

   The movie was so craptacular that it generated legions of ironic fans who watched it over and over solely to mock it mercilessly.

   • 2000 November, Scott Tarr, “Thumpin' Thunderbirds”, in Maximum PC, volume 5, number 11, page 80:

     The craptacular Cirrus Logic chipset is nailed to the PCB. Luckily, adding a soundcard resolves this issue.

   • 2004, Chris Turner, Planet Simpson, →ISBN, page 82:

     Homer has been known to sit on his couch excitedly clutching a pennant reading MID-SEASON, as he waits to drink in such craptacular Fox-TV mid-season fare as America's Funniest Tornadoes, All in the Family 1999 and Admiral Baby.

   • 2010, Cory Doctorow, For the Win, →ISBN, page 127:

     He'd signed a contract when he was accepted to the university giving ownership of all his ideas to the school forever, in exchange for the promise of someday adding “P.h.D.” to his name. It hadn't seemed like a good idea at the time, but the alternative was the awesomely craptacular job market, and so he'd signed it.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:craptacular.

Further reading

• “craptacular adj.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present