Synonyms for crab
kræbcrab

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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

Matched Categories

1. • Astrology
   • Aviation
   • Decapod Crustacean
   • Fish
   • Louse
   • Person
   • Scurry
   • Sign
   • Steer

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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. Javier Luque:

   We started looking at these fossils and we found they had what looked like the eyes of a larva, the mouth of a shrimp, claws of a frog crab, and the carapace of a lobster, we have an idea of what a typical crab looks like — and these new fossils break all those rules.

2. Charles M. Schulz:

   Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life.

3. Jordyn Kastlunger:

   My dad fishes for a variety of things so the only thing that's really been impacted is crab, since processors don't have as much bait to give, we've been doing OK. It's definitely slower and harder.

4. This Easter , D’Silva:

   Singapore is a lot more than chili crab and chicken rice. It’s a lot, lot more than that, if you have an opportunity to go to a restaurant that serves Singapore’s heritage cuisine, go, because it’s mind-blowing : the flavor, the ingredients. Everything about it.

5. Javier Luque:

   Callichimaera perplexa is so unique and strange that it can be considered the platypus of the crab world, usually we think of crabs as big animals with broad carapaces, strong claws, small eyes in long eyestalks, and a small tail tucked under the body. Well, Callichimaera defies all of these' crabby' features and forces a rethink of our definition of what makes a crab a crab.