crab

noun · verbA1

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noun

Plural noun:

crabs

1.
(countable, uncountable)Any crustacean of the infraorder Brachyura, having five pairs of legs, the foremost of which are in the form of claws, and a carapace.
2.
(uncountable)The meat of this crustacean, served as food; crabmeat.
3.
Various other animals that resemble true crabs:
4.
(countable, uncountable)A bad-tempered person.
5.
(countable, informal, uncountable)(in plural crabs, informal) An infestation of pubic lice (Pthirus pubis).
Although crabs themselves are an easily treated inconvenience, the patient and his partner(s) clearly run major STD risks.
6.
(abbreviation, alt of, ellipsis, uncountable)(uncountable, aviation) Ellipsis of crab angle.
The pilot had to hold fifteen degrees of crab during the approach to keep her plane from getting blown off the localizer course.
7.
(countable, slang, uncountable)(poker slang) A playing card with the rank of three.
8.
(countable, uncountable)(rowing) A position in rowing where the oar is pushed under the rigger by the force of the water.
9.
(countable, uncountable)A defect in an outwardly normal object that may render it inconvenient and troublesome to use.
10.
(countable, dated, uncountable)An unsold book that is returned to the publisher.
11.
(Singapore, countable, slang, uncountable)(Singapore, military, slang) On an insignia, a coat of arms symbol representing a senior rank.
12.
(countable, derogatory, uncountable)(derogatory, Blood slang) A member of the Crips.

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verb

V_es/s

crabs

V_ing/Gerund

crabbing

V_ed/pp

crabbed

1.
(intransitive)To fish for crabs.
2.
(US, slang, transitive)To ruin.
3.
(intransitive)To complain.
4.
(transitive)To complain about.
5.
(intransitive)To drift or move sideways or to leeward (by analogy with the movement of a crab).
6.
To move in a manner that involves keeping low and clinging to surfaces.
7.
(transitive)(transitive, film, television) To move (a camera) sideways.
8.
(transitive)(transitive, aviation) To navigate (an aircraft, e.g. a glider) sideways against an air current in order to maintain a straight-line course.
9.
(World War I, obsolete)To fly slightly off the straight-line course towards an enemy aircraft, as the machine guns on early aircraft did not allow firing through the propeller disk.
10.
(rare)To back out of something.
11.
(zoology, of sugar gliders) To make a loud, rapid rattling sound when scared, stressed, or agitated.
12.
(obsolete)To irritate, make surly or sour

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ine-pro From Middle English crabbe, from Old English crabba (crab; crayfish; cancer), from *krabbō, from Proto-Germanic *krabbô, from *krabbōną (to scratch), from Proto-Indo-European *grobʰeh₂yéti (to scratch), a metathesised o-grade of *gerbʰ- (to carve, scratch). More at carve.