crab

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Etymology 1 1.2.1 Noun 1.2.1.1 Derived terms 1.2.1.2 Related terms 1.2.1.3 Translations 1.2.2 Verb 1.2.2.1 Derived terms 1.3 Etymology 2 1.3.1 Noun 1.3.1.1 Synonyms 1.3.1.2 Derived terms 1.3.2 Verb 1.4 Etymology 3 1.4.1 Noun 1.4.1.1 Derived terms 1.4.2 References 1.5 Anagrams

[edit] English

[edit] Pronunciation

• enPR: krăb, IPA: /kræb, SAMPA: /kr{b/
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  Rhymes: -æb

[edit] Etymology 1

From Middle English crabbe, from Old English crabba.

[edit] Noun

crab (plural crabs)

1. (zoology) A crustacean of the infraorder Brachyura, having five pairs of legs, the foremost of which are in the form of claws, and a carapace.
2. A bad-tempered person.
3. (in plural crabs, informal) An infestation of pubic lice.

   Although crabs themselves are an easily treated inconvenience, the patient and his partner(s) clearly run major STD risks

4. (slang) A playing card with the rank of three.

[edit] Derived terms

[edit] Related terms

• craber
• crabier
• crabite
• crab-skuit
• panier de crabes

[edit] Translations

[edit] Verb

to crab (third-person singular simple present crabs, present participle crabbing, simple past and past participle crabbed)

1. (intransitive) To fish for crabs.
2. (intransitive) To complain.
3. (intransitive) (by analogy with the movement of a crab) To move sideways of an aircraft, such as a glider.
4. (transitive) (by analogy with the movement of a crab) To navigate (an aircraft, e.g. a glider) sideways against an air current in order to maintain a straight-line course.
5. (obsolete) In World War 1, to fly slightly off the straight-line course towards an enemy aircraft, as the machine guns on early aircraft did not allow firing through the propeller disk.
6. (rare) To back out of something.

[edit] Derived terms

• crabber
• crabbing

[edit] Etymology 2

Germanic: plausibly from Scandinavian, cognate with Swedish dialect scrabba

[edit] Noun

crab (plural crabs)

1. The crab apple or wild apple.
2. The tree bearing crab apples, which has a dogbane-like bitter bark with medical use.

[edit] Synonyms

• (crab apple): crab apple
• (tree): crab apple

[edit] Derived terms

• cherry crab
• Chinese crab
• crab apple, crab-apple, crabapple
• crab-bat
• crab-knob
• crab-staff
• crab-stick, crabstick
• crab-stock
• crab-tree
• garland crab
• Siberian crab

[edit] Verb

to crab (third-person singular simple present crabs, present participle crabbing, simple past and past participle crabbed)

1. (obsolete) To irritate, make surly or sour
2. To be ill-tempered
3. (British dialect) To cudgel or beat, as with a crabstick

[edit] Etymology 3

- possibly a corruption of the Latin genus name Carapa

[edit] Noun

crab (plural crabs)

1. The tree species Carapa guianensis, native of South America.

[edit] Derived terms

• crab-nut
• crab-oil
• crab-tree
• crab-wood

[edit] References

• Weisenberg, Michael (2000) The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. ISBN 978-1880069523
• Funk & Wagnalls Standard Dictionary of the English Language. Internatinal Edition. combined with Britannica World Language Dictionary. Chicago-London etc., Encyclopaedia Britannica, inc., 1965.

[edit] Anagrams

• Alphagram: abcr
• BRAC
• carb