crab

Nouns

• (n) decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers
• (n) a quarrelsome grouch crabby person,
• (n) (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Cancer Cancer,
• (n) the fourth sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about June 21 to July 22 Cancer the Crab, Cancer,
• (n) the edible flesh of any of various crabs crabmeat,
• (n) a louse that infests the pubic region of the human body crab louse, Phthirius pubis, pubic louse,
• (n) a stroke of the oar that either misses the water or digs too deeply
  • he caught a crab and lost the race

Verbs

• (v) direct (an aircraft) into a crosswind
• (v) scurry sideways like a crab
• (v) fish for crab
• (v) complain
  • What was he hollering about?
  beef, bellyache, bitch, gripe, grouse, squawk, holler,

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