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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

  • (..) "Mr. Pea-baba." Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful, beautiful boy What's cooking, Mr. Peabody? Oh, nothing much. Just a little Dungeness crab with a passion-fruit basil concassé. Some truffled quails in a juniper-berry reduction. And Baked Alaska. Wow! Is today some (..)
    2014 Mr. Peabody & Sherman