sand crab

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sand crab (plural sand crabs)

  1. A crab of the Hippoidea superfamily of decapod crustaceans, living in sandy habitats.
    • 1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 372:
      She ran down the ribs of sand, sending the sand-crabs scurrying to their holes.
  2. (US, naval slang) A civilian.

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