as in gamble
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 crapshoot
After the first selection, the first half of the first round appears to be a complete crapshoot.
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Curtis Pashelka, The Mercury News, 12 June 2024
If Tampa is running away with its game, this will be more of a crapshoot.
—Hank Gola, New York Daily News, 5 Jan. 2024
Being Too Specific About Your Travel Dates Booking plane tickets with points or miles can be a total crapshoot.
—Eric Rosen, Travel + Leisure, 7 June 2024
Logan Webb is giving the team six, but everyone else is a crapshoot.
—Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 23 May 2024
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Curtis Pashelka, The Mercury News, 12 June 2024
If Tampa is running away with its game, this will be more of a crapshoot.
—Hank Gola, New York Daily News, 5 Jan. 2024
Being Too Specific About Your Travel Dates Booking plane tickets with points or miles can be a total crapshoot.
—Eric Rosen, Travel + Leisure, 7 June 2024
Logan Webb is giving the team six, but everyone else is a crapshoot.
—Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 23 May 2024
See all Example Sentences for crapshoot
Recent Examples of Synonyms for crapshoot
Noun
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Trending on Billboard The gamble met with mixed results initially.—
Leila Cobo,
Billboard,
21 Jan. 2025
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Vitor is right not to accept it, but to come out publicly like this could be the biggest gamble of his Wolves career.—
Steve Madeley,
The Athletic,
21 Jan. 2025
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In 2021, the Italian conglomerate inked a joint venture with Fendi to form Fashion Furniture Design, or FF Design, to develop the Fendi Casa business.—
Sofia Celeste,
WWD,
16 Jan. 2025
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The project marks Maddock Films’ first venture into the historical epic genre and features Kaushal alongside Rashmika Mandanna and Akshaye Khanna.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
16 Jan. 2025
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Of course, this is all speculation until Nintendo confirms more details about the new Switch.—
Will Greenwald,
PCMAG,
16 Jan. 2025
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The console's unveiling, made in a YouTube video, comes after growing speculation this week from die-hard fans that a release was coming and has been anticipated by an industry that has hit by mass layoffs and an ongoing strike from the video game performer community.—
Kalhan Rosenblatt,
NBC News,
16 Jan. 2025
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“Crapshoot.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crapshoot. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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