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crab

Definition

  • noun: a sea animal that has a hard shell, eight legs, and two large claws
  • noun: any of numerous chiefly marine broadly built decapod crustaceans
  • verb: to fish for 'crabs'
  • verb: to catch or try to catch crabs
  • synonyms: crabstick, embitter, sour

Examples

  • I'm tired of listening to his 'crabbing' about the weather.

  • He's been 'crabbing' about the weather all afternoon.

  • I don't know why she's been such a 'crab' lately.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) Take him out. You'll not kill him... but you throw him into the slop pool... to be drowned and eaten by crabs! Then let the crabs be cursed by Odin! That's my decision. If he survives the pool, what then? (..)
    1958 The Vikings