Meaning & use
Crapola
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(informal) Nonsense, worthless material, or something of poor quality; a mild euphemistic intensifier of 'crap.'
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He tried to sell me some crapola about a miracle diet pill.
The attic was full of old crapola nobody wanted to keep.
A note on using this word
Crapola playfully extends 'crap' with a mock-Italian '-ola' suffix, the same pattern seen in words like 'payola'; it softens the vulgarity slightly while keeping the dismissive tone.
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