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Crab

noun

Decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers.

A quarrelsome grouch. Synonym: crabby person.

(astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Cancer. Synonym: Cancer.

The fourth sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about June 21 to July 22. Synonyms: Cancer, Cancer the Crab.

The edible flesh of any of various crabs. Synonym: crabmeat.

A louse that infests the pubic region of the human body. Synonyms: crab louse, Phthirius pubis, pubic louse.

A stroke of the oar that either misses the water or digs too deeply.

verb

Direct (an aircraft) into a crosswind.

Scurry sideways like a crab.

Fish for crab.

Complain. Synonyms: beef, bellyache, bitch, gripe, grouse, holler, squawk.

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"Crab" Quotes from Famous Books

... the skipper and a boy ashore, who returned with some marvellous looking lobsters and a huge crab. It seems that this place is famous for its shell-fish, and I can only say that I never tasted anything more delicious than ...

— If Only etc. • Francis Clement Philips and Augustus Harris

... like the young plaintain tree, and thy fingers are the buds of the champaka flower." He spoke rapidly, crushing her hands cruelly. "The bone of thy knee showing whitely through thy garment is shaped even as the shell of a crab, and the whiteness of the bone from thy knee to thy slender ankle ...

— Leonie of the Jungle • Joan Conquest

... had he not been possessed of an unusually strong sense of humour. For at the close of the mullet-scrubbing episode, the foolish fellow remarked by way of a jest to the officer on duty, that he was thankful he had not also offered the emperor a large crab which he had likewise brought in his basket. This imprudent speech was immediately reported to Tiberius, who thereupon commanded the man's face to be lacerated with the aforesaid crab's claws; but whether this pleasing incident ended ...

— The Naples Riviera • Herbert M. Vaughan

... the deep bay formed by the two huge tentacles that run south and south-east from the crab-like body of the island, when suddenly, above the noise of the engine, they heard the sharp crack of a shot, then two or three more. Glancing up the bay to his left, Smith saw a large junk, its sails ...

— Round the World in Seven Days • Herbert Strang

... IV. of the Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits before this book is published. Here again I find interesting records of imitative dancing. One dance imitates the swimming movements of the large lizard (Varanus), another is an imitation of the movements of a crab, another imitates those of a pigeon, and another those of a pelican. At a dance which I witnessed in the Roro village of Seria a party from Delena danced the "Cassowary" dance; and Father Egedi says it is certainly so called ...

— The Mafulu - Mountain People of British New Guinea • Robert W. Williamson

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