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

  • (..) though I most powerfully and potently believe it... ...yet I hold it not honesty to have it thus set down For you yourself, sir, could grow as old as I am, if like a crab you could go backwards Though this be madness, yet there is method in it - Will you walk out of the air, my lord? (..)
    2015 Hamlet