crapola

noun

crap·​o·​la ˌkrap-ˈō-lə 

slang

: nonsense, rubbish

also : stuff sense 4b

Synonyms

• applesauce [slang]
• balderdash
• baloney
• boloney
• beans
• bilge
• blah
• blah-blah
• blarney
• blather
• blatherskite
• blither
• bosh
• bull [slang]
• bunk
• bunkum
• buncombe
• claptrap
• codswallop [British]
• crock
• drivel
• drool
• fiddle
• fiddle-faddle
• fiddlesticks
• flannel [British]
• flapdoodle
• folderol
• falderal
• folly
• foolishness
• fudge
• garbage
• guff
• hogwash
• hokeypokey
• hokum
• hoodoo
• hooey
• horsefeathers [slang]
• humbug
• humbuggery
• jazz
• malarkey
• malarky
• moonshine
• muck
• nerts [slang]
• nonsense
• nuts
• piffle
• poppycock
• punk
• rot
• rubbish
• senselessness
• silliness
• slush
• stupidity
• taradiddle
• tarradiddle
• tommyrot
• tosh
• trash
• trumpery
• twaddle

Examples of crapola in a Sentence

The furniture in the garage is crapola.

Everything he says is just a bunch of crapola.

Recent Examples on the Web

That is complete crapola. —Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 19 July 2021

What’s followed is an ongoing and endless stream of superhero crapola, with explosions subbing for intelligent characters and dialog. —Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 27 June 2019

Predictably before Lewis’ presser, got a run of emails and social crapola suggesting the media was complicit in the Bengals eternal quest to be average. —Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 4 Jan. 2018

Well, what came next was a firestorm of typical (a)social media crapola. —Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 24 Oct. 2017

The president of Colombia was standing next to him as the ignorance and the crapola began to fly. —Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 18 May 2017

Word History

Etymology

crap entry 2 + -ola, suffix forming jocular variants of words

First Known Use

1941, in the meaning defined above