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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

  • (..) .. ...indeed. .. That concIudes the festivities. .. Ladies, feed him to the crabs. .. Since the beginning of written history, a nation's power has been determined... .. ...by the size of its army. Tonight, that chapter wiII be cIosed. .. (..)
    1999 Wild Wild West