crab

IPA: krˈæb

A crustacean of the infraorder Brachyura, having five pairs of legs, the foremost of which are in the form of claws, and a carapace.
(uncountable) The meat of this crustacean, served as food; crabmeat.
A bad-tempered person.
(in plural crabs, informal) An infestation of pubic lice (Pthirus pubis).
(uncountable, aviation) The angle by which an aircraft's nose is pointed upwind of its groundtrack to compensate for crosswinds during an approach to landing; its crab angle.
(slang) A playing card with the rank of three.
(rowing) A position in rowing where the oar is pushed under the rigger by the force of the water.
A defect in an outwardly normal object that may render it inconvenient and troublesome to use.
(dated) An unsold book that is returned to the publisher.
The crab apple or wild apple.
The tree bearing crab apples, which has a dogbane-like bitter bark with medical use.
A cudgel made of the wood of the crab tree; a crabstick.
A movable winch or windlass with powerful gearing, used with derricks, etc.
A form of windlass, or geared capstan, for hauling ships into dock, etc.
A machine used in ropewalks to stretch the yarn.
A claw for anchoring a portable machine.
The tree species Carapa guianensis, native to South America.
(informal) Short for carabiner. [A metal link with a gate that can open and close, generally used for clipping ropes to anchors or other objects.]

(intransitive) To fish for crabs.
(transitive, US, slang) To ruin.
(intransitive) To complain.
(transitive) To complain about.
(intransitive) To drift or move sideways or to leeward (by analogy with the movement of a crab).
To move in a manner that involves keeping low and clinging to surfaces.
(transitive, aviation) To navigate (an aircraft, e.g. a glider) sideways against an air current in order to maintain a straight-line course.
(transitive, film, television) To move (a camera) sideways.
(obsolete, World War I), 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.
(rare) To back out of something.
(obsolete) To irritate, make surly or sour
To be ill-tempered; to complain or find fault.
(British dialect) To cudgel or beat, as with a crabstick

Examples of "crab" in Sentences

The crab has a big claw.
Crabs live under the sea.
His handwriting is very much crabbed.
The sailors caught crabs and dolphones.
It was difficult to read the crabbed writings.
The handwriting is described as small and crabbed.
The crabbed handwriting was not enough for the teacher.
The ship incorporated elements of a starfish and a crab.
The horseshoe crab is an arthropod of the family Limulidae.
My favourite and most glamorous crab is Malus hupehensis from China.
Furiously, he throws the crab and the crab lands in the employer's hat.
Sorry, Tashby but the blue crab is no more in inventory at Super Lake as best I can see.
A dried-out horseshoe crab is a delicate thing and there's no way it would survive the flight in my checked baggage.
March 13th, 2010 at 11: 51 am dbadass says: the crab is in the freezer but I do have a bunch of defrosted lobster tails.
Speaking about the work he sees himself doing as child and youth advocate, Nieman says he sees young people suffering from what he calls the crab-pot syndrome.