crab
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noun (English)
1. (uncountable) The meat of this crustacean, served as food; crabmeat.Examples: "But Richmond[…]appeared to lose himself in his own reflections. Some pickled crab, which he had not touched, had been removed with a damson pie; and his sister saw[…]that he had eaten no more than a spoonful of that either."uncountable
2. (in plural crabs, informal) An infestation of pubic lice (Pthirus pubis).Examples: "Although crabs themselves are an easily treated inconvenience, the patient and his partner(s) clearly run major STD risks."countableinformaluncountable
3. (uncountable, aviation) The angle by which an aircraft's nose is pointed upwind of its groundtrack to compensate for crosswinds during an approach to landing; its crab angle.Examples: "The pilot had to hold fifteen degrees of crab during the approach to keep her plane from getting blown off the localizer course."uncountable
4. (poker slang) A playing card with the rank of three.countableslanguncountable
5. (rowing) A position in rowing where the oar is pushed under the rigger by the force of the water.countableuncountable
6. (dated) An unsold book that is returned to the publisher.Examples: "[…] the unsold copies may be returned to the original publisher , at a period fixed upon between Christmas and Easter; these returned copies are technically called krebse or crabs, probably, from their walking backwards. […] A says to B, "I have had eight thousand dollars' worth of your publications, three thousand were crabs, that makes five thousand.""; "[…] unsold copies and settling the yearly accounts; while for the publisher begins the much dreaded season of "crabs," as […]"countabledateduncountable
verb (English)
1. (intransitive) To fish for crabs.intransitive
2. (transitive, US, slang) To ruin.Examples: "I thought at the time that that little speech meant a savin' of eight dollars,[…] But the Missus crabbed it a few minutes after her and Bess come in the room."; "‘Just so we understand each other,’ he said after a pause. ‘If you crab this case, you'll be in a jam.’"USslangtransitive
3. (intransitive) To complain.Examples: "“The thing to do is to forget about the heat,” said Tom impatiently. “You make it ten times worse by crabbing about it.”"; "And if we do have to walk, I don't want to have to listen to you crabbing at me, Tad Trenton."intransitive
4. (transitive) To complain about.Examples: "Well, because of this state of things they crabbed his scheme from the first, ridiculed it, wrote against it, spread broadcast a feeling of distrust."transitive
5. (intransitive) To drift or move sideways or to leeward (by analogy with the movement of a crab).Examples: "Mutt stalked forward, matching him, step for step, crabbing sideways the way wolves do when they're going for the kill."; "The aircraft crabbed sideways in the cross-winds and leveled to horizontal."; "Another shouted order and again the squares crabbed sideways."intransitive
6. (transitive, film, television) To move (a camera) sideways.Examples: "If panning is not easy to make seem natural, crabbing the camera is even less like any action we perform with our eyes in the real world. There are a few circumstances in which we walk sideways: […]"transitive
verb (English)
1. (obsolete) To irritate, make surly or sourobsolete
2. (British dialect) To cudgel or beat, as with a crabstickExamples: "Get you to bed, drab, courage Or l'll so crab your shoulders!"; "I was on a horse named The Skipper, a perfect terror to ride when he was in a bad humour, which he invariably was; nevertheless he was a splendid hunter and I never crabbed him."; "The Shiremans had a down on him over stores he'd condemned as not fit for dogs, let alone able seamen, and they'd got wind he was a socialist, and they crabbed him all over the shipping companies' offices."Britishdialectal
3. (obsolete, transitive) To offend or insult.Examples: "If I think one thing and speak another, / I will both crab Christ and our Ladie His mother."obsoletetransitive
noun (English)
1. (informal) Clipping of carabiner, modified based on likening the shape of a carabiner to a crab's claw.abbreviationalt-ofclippinginformal
Definition source: Wiktionary