Crab Definition
- crabby person
- cancer
- Cancer the Crab
- crabmeat
- Phthirius pubis
- pubic-louse
- crab-louse
- grumbler
- complainer
- bellyacher
- grump
- seafood
- Anomura (both Latin)
- brachyura
- podothalmian
- To make a faulty stroke in rowing that causes the blade of the oar to strike the water on the recovery stroke.
- to fail to clear the water on the recovery stroke accidentally, thereby unbalancing the boat or impeding its movement
- Cancer, the constellation and fourth sign of the zodiac
- to ruin or frustrate one's scheme (the deal, etc.)
Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Crab
- catch a crab
- catch a crab
- the Crab
- crab one's act (the deal, etc.)
Origin of Crab
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From Middle English crabbe, from Old English crabba, from Proto-Germanic *krabbô (compare Dutch krab, Low German Krabb, Swedish krabba), from *krabbōną 'to creep, crawl' (compare East Frisian kraabje, Dutch krabben, Bavarian German krepsen), from Proto-Indo-European *grobʰ- (“scratch, claw at”), a variant of *gerebʰ-. More at carve.
From Wiktionary
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Middle English crabbe, of Germanic origin, plausibly from Scandinavian, cognate with Swedish dialect scrabba
From Wiktionary
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Middle English crabbe possibly from crabbe crab (shellfish) crab1
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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Middle English crabbe from Old English crabba gerbh- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
Possibly a corruption of the genus name Carapa
From Wiktionary
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Alternation of carabiner
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