crib
IPA: krˈɪb
noun
- (US) A baby’s bed with high, often slatted, often moveable sides, suitable for a child who has outgrown a cradle or bassinet.
- (Britain) A bed for a child older than a baby.
- (nautical) A small sleeping berth in a packet ship or other small vessel
- A wicker basket.
- A manger, a feeding trough for animals elevated off the earth or floor, especially one for fodder such as hay.
- The baby Jesus and the manger in a creche or nativity scene, consisting of statues of Mary, Joseph and various other characters such as the magi.
- A bin for drying or storing grain, as with a corn crib.
- A small room or covered structure, especially one of rough construction, used for storage or penning animals.
- A confined space, as with a cage or office-cubicle
- (obsolete) A job, a position; (Britain) an appointment.
- A hovel, a roughly constructed building best suited to the shelter of animals but used for human habitation.
- A boxy structure traditionally built of heavy wooden timbers, to support an existing structure from below, as with a mineshaft or a building being raised off its foundation in preparation for being moved; see cribbing.
- (usually in the plural) A collection of quotes or references for use in speaking, for assembling a written document, or as an aid to a project of some sort; a crib sheet.
- (obsolete) A minor theft, extortion or embezzlement, with or without criminal intent.
- (cribbage) The card game cribbage.
- (cribbage) The cards discarded by players and used by the dealer.
- (cryptography) A known piece of information corresponding to a section of encrypted text, that is then used to work out the remaining sections.
- (southern New Zealand) A small holiday home, often near a beach and of simple construction.
- (now chiefly Australia, New Zealand) A snack or packed lunch, especially as taken to work to eat during a break.
- (Canada) A small raft made of timber.
- (UK, obsolete, thieves' cant) The stomach.
- A literal translation, usually of a work originally in Latin or Ancient Greek.
- (slang) A cheat sheet or past test used by students; crib sheet.
- (slang, sometimes African-American Vernacular) One’s residence, house or dwelling place, or usual place of resort.
verb
- (transitive) To place or confine in a crib.
- To shut up or confine in a narrow habitation; to cage; to cramp.
- (transitive) To collect one or more passages and/or references for use in a speech, written document or as an aid for some task; to create a crib sheet.
- (transitive, informal) To plagiarize; to copy; to cheat.
- (intransitive) To install timber supports, as with cribbing.
- (transitive, archaic) To steal or embezzle.
- (India) To complain, to grumble
- To crowd together, or to be confined, as if in a crib or in narrow accommodations.
- (intransitive, of a horse) To seize the manger or other solid object with the teeth and draw in wind.
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Examples of "crib" in Sentences
- The place is famous for Christmas Crib.
- This crib takes apart for easy storage.
- The crib is the spare hand that the dealer gets.
- The photo was taken in the crib studio in Atlanta, US.
- The player contributes two cards from his hand to the crib.
- The crib was transported to the site from Amherstburg, Ontario.
- The chimp slept in a crib at the corner of the singer's bedroom.
- Actually, buying that specific type of crib is also “an activity.”
- It is surely unseemly to be in such haste to kill an infant in its crib.
- During the Christmas days is possible to see the Crib with statuettes of 1700.
- The heavy crib structure supported the dam's face and the weight of the water.
- Put baby in crib for 1/2 hour while you doze on couch or mattress in the room.
- Like another said – baby in crib and me on the deck for just 5 minutes really helped.
- I keep telling myself that moving and getting kicked out of your crib is a lot for a 21 month old.
- Neither ever took to being in crib (read: screamed like crazy at the idea of being placed in the crib at all).
- Suppose that a crib is found to strangle babies that sleep in it, as happened to the child of friends of mine.
- Once the experts start linking Bach and Mozart with intelligence, the commercial mavens get work selling "Bach for Babies," with the idea that if you play this music in crib, your baby will gain IQ points.
- If the “non-strangling” crib is more expensive, less easy to move about, less convenient to use, and in a location where the child is likely to be well-supervised, it is perfectly rational to choose the strangling model.
- Bob Metcalfe, general partner with Polaris Ventures and the inventor of Ethernet, got on stage today at the Green: Net conference in San Francisco to call for “a squanderable abundance of cheap and clean energy,” that will crib from the development of the Internet.