Crab

Noun

 * 1)  A crustacean of the infraorder Brachyura, having five pairs of legs, the foremost of which are in the form of claws, and a carapace.
 * 2) A bad-tempered person.
 * 3)  An infestation of pubic lice.
 * 4)  A playing card with the rank of three.
 * 5) Short for carabiner.
 * 6)  A position in rowing where the oar is pushed under the rigger by the force of the water.
 * 7) The crab apple or wild apple.
 * 8) The tree bearing crab apples, which has a dogbane-like bitter bark with medical use.
 * 9) The tree species Carapa guianensis, native of South America.

Verb

 * 1)  To fish for crabs.
 * 2)  To complain.
 * 3)  (by analogy with the movement of a crab) To move sideways of an aircraft, such as a glider.
 * 4)  (by analogy with the movement of a crab) To navigate (an aircraft, e.g. a glider) sideways against an air current in order to maintain a straight-line course.
 * 5)  In World War 1, 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.
 * 6)  To back out of something.
 * 7) To be ill-tempered; to complain or find fault.
 * 8) (British dialect) To cudgel or beat, as with a crabstick
 * 9) (obsolete) To irritate, make surly or sour

Adjectives for Crab
roasted; reluctant; soft-shelled; luscious; invading; semi-transparent; side-walking; scurrying; sodden; swiftly-moving.

Verbs for Crab
broil—; capture—; catch—; devil—; roast—; steam—; —claws; —crawls; —weighs.

Thesaurus
Chinese windlass, Dungeness crab, Japanese crab, Spanish windlass, air a grievance, bank, beef, bellyache, bellyacher, bitch, bleat, blue point, bollix, capstan, cat flea, chigoe, clam, clamor, cockroach, complain, complainant, complainer, coquillage, cramp, crane, crank, crawdad, crawfish, crayfish, crib, crimp, croak, croaker, crosspatch, derrick, dip, dog flea, erector, faultfinder, feather, fishtail, flea, forklift, foul up, fret, fret and fume, frondeur, fuss, gantry crane, grayback, gripe, griper, groan, grouch, grouse, grouser, growl, growler, grumble, grumbler, grunt, gum, gum up, hoist, holler, howl, hydraulic tailgate, jack, jackscrew, jigger, kick, kicker, kvetch, langouste, lever, lift, lifter, limpet, littleneck clam, lobster, lodge a complaint, loop, louse, louse up, malcontent, mite, murmur, murmurer, mussel, mutter, mutterer, nit, oyster, parasite, periwinkle, plow, porpoise, prawn, pull out, pull up, push down, quahog, queer, querulous person, raise a howl, reactionary, reactionist, rebel, red bug, reel, register a complaint, roach, roll, sand flea, scallop, shellfish, shrimp, sideslip, skid, snafu, snail, soft-shell crab, sorehead, spin, spiral, squawk, steamer, stunt, tackle, take on, undulate, vermin, weevil, whelk, whiner, winch, windlass, yammer, yap, yaw, yawp, yelp

Pronunciation

 * ,, {{SAMPA|/kr{b/}}

Etymology 1
From crabbe:, from  crabba:, from  (cf. Dutch krab:, Low German undefined:, Swedish krabba:), from  'to creep, crawl' (cf. East Frisian kraabje:, Low German/Dutch krabben:, German (Bavarian) krepsen:), from  'to scratch, claw at', variant of. More at.

Etymology 2
Germanic: plausibly from Scandinavian, cognate with Swedish dialect scrabba

Etymology 3
Possibly a corruption of the Latin genus name Carapa

Derived terms
Alaska crab; Alaska king crab; Alaskan king crab; arrow crab; black crab; blue crab; blue swimmer crab; box-crab; catch a crab; Chinese crab; Chinese mitten crab; Christmas Island red crab; circular crab; coconut crab; come off crabs; crabbed; crabber; crabbery; crabbing; crabbish; crabby; crab cactus; crab canon; crab-canon; crab-catcher; crab-claw; crab-eater; crab-eating; crab face;  crab-face; crab-faced; crab-favored; crab-favoured; crab-farming; crab-fish; crab-grass; crabgrass; crab-harrow; crab-hole; crab-holed; crablet; crab-like; crablike; crabling; crab-lobster; crab louse, crab-louse; crab mentality; crabmeat; Crab Nebula; crabologist; crab-pot; crab-pot valve; crab rock; crab-roller; crab's claw; crab's eye; crab's-eye; crab-shell; crab-sidle; crab-snouted; crab spider, crab-spider; crab-step; crab stick; crab-stone; crab-weed; crabwise; crab yaws; cut a crab; Dungeness crab; fiddler crab; flower crab; ghost crab; green crab; halloween crab; hard-shell crab; hermit crab; horseshoe crab; Jonah crab; king crab, king-crab; lady crab; land crab; land-crab; mangrove crab; mantis crab; masked crab; mole crab; mud crab; nobody-crab; oyster crab; palm crab; pea crab, pea-crab; porcelain crab; purse crab; racing crab; river crab; robber-crab; rock crab; sand crab; sea-crab; sentinel crab; shame-faced crab; shore crab, shore-crab; soft-shell crab; soldier crab, soldier-crab; spider crab, spider-crab; stilt crab; stone crab; strawberry crab; Tasmanian giant crab; thumbnail crab; tree crab; turn out crabs; velvet crab; white crab; cherry crab; Chinese crab; crab apple, crab-apple, crabapple; crab-bat; crab-knob; crab-staff; crab-stick, crabstick; crab-stock; crab-tree; garland crab; Siberian crab; crab-nut; crab-oil; crab-tree; crab-wood; crabber; crabbing.

Related terms
craber; crabier; crabite; crab-skuit; panier de crabes.

Synonyms

 * crab apple
 * crab apple

Noun

 * Afrikaans: krap
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic:, سلطعون
 * Azeri: yencək
 * Basque: karramarro
 * Belarusian:
 * Bosnian:
 * Bulgarian: морски рак
 * Catalan: cranc, carranc
 * Chamicuro:
 * Chamorro: pånglao
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian: krabi
 * Faroese: krabbi
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician: cangrexo, caranguexo
 * German: ,
 * Greek: ,
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: केकड़ा, केंकड़ा
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido:
 * Irish:
 * Italian:


 * Japanese: ,
 * Khmer: ក្ដាម
 * Korean:
 * Latin: cancer marinus
 * Maltese: granċi
 * Manx:
 * Marathi: खेकडा (khékdā)
 * Navajo:
 * Norwegian:
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scots: partan
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: рак
 * Roman: rak
 * Slovak: rak
 * Slovene: rakovica
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: alimango
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu: کیکڑا, گیگٹا
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian: krab


 * Bulgarian: раздразнителен човек
 * Finnish: mörökölli


 * Polish: opryskliwy


 * Bulgarian: срамна въшка
 * Finnish:


 * French: morpions
 * Spanish: ,

Anagrams

 * BRAC
 * carb