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  1. crabnoun

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

    Synonyms:
    pubic louse, crabby person, crabmeat, crab louse

  2. crab, crabby personnoun

    a quarrelsome grouch

    Synonyms:
    pubic louse, crabby person, crabmeat, crab louse

  3. Cancer, Crabnoun

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

    Synonyms:
    crab louse, malignant neoplastic disease, crabby person, crabmeat, genus Cancer, pubic louse

  4. Cancer, Cancer the Crab, Crabnoun

    the fourth sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about June 21 to July 22

    Synonyms:
    crab louse, malignant neoplastic disease, crabby person, crabmeat, genus Cancer, pubic louse

  5. crab, crabmeatnoun

    the edible flesh of any of various crabs

    Synonyms:
    pubic louse, crabby person, crabmeat, crab louse

  6. crab louse, pubic louse, crab, Phthirius pubisnoun

    a louse that infests the pubic region of the human body

    Synonyms:
    pubic louse, crabmeat, crabby person, crab louse

  7. crabverb

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

    "he caught a crab and lost the race"

    Synonyms:
    pubic louse, crabby person, crabmeat, crab louse

  8. crabverb

    direct (an aircraft) into a crosswind

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

  9. crabverb

    scurry sideways like a crab

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

  10. crabverb

    fish for crab

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

  11. gripe, bitch, grouse, crab, beef, squawk, bellyache, hollerverb

    complain

    "What was he hollering about?"

    Synonyms:
    bitch, screak, shout, grouse, holler out, backbite, hollo, skreigh, skreak, shout out, squawk, gripe, bellyache, holler, yell, call, beef, scream, cry, squall, screech

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  1. crabnoun

    Synonyms:
    crustacean, mollusk

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  1. List of paraphrases for "crab":

    prawn, crabe, crabs

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How to use crab in a sentence?

  1. Jake Jacobsen:

    King crab has taken on a new mystique as not only a great tasting seafood, and an impressive looking dish, but as something that was obtained at great risk and challenge.

  2. Kathryn Kegel:

    They are big hunters of crab, clams, scallops, things like that.

  3. Jay Bolden:

    Until the global pharmacopoeias revise the test method to recognize rFC as on par with crab blood-based tests, we can't just make the change for medicines that are already on the market, when that happens, then we can change over that final 10 percent.

  4. Aristophenes:

    You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.

  5. John Minadakis:

    Business has in fact been affected by the recent events. Our online nationwide crab cake shipping orders have doubled. On-site business is up 30 percent, we have hard-working American citizens jumping on planes and flying to our family restaurant for lunch and dinner. I’ve met families from Montana, Memphis, Iowa, Florida, and everywhere in between!


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