crab

crab

crab (third-person singular simple present crabs, present participle crabbing, simple past and past participle crabbed)

1. (intransitive) To fish for crabs.
2. (intransitive) To complain.
3. (intransitive) (by analogy with the movement of a crab) To move sideways of an aircraft, such as a glider.
4. (transitive) (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. (obsolete) 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. (rare) To back out of something.
   • 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter XV:

     “Nothing can possibly go wrong.” “Just as you say, sir. But I still have that feeling.” The blood of the Woosters is hot, and I was about to tell him in set terms what I thought of his bally feeling, when I suddenly spotted what it was that was making him crab the act.

crab (plural crabs)

1. (zoology) 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. (in plural crabs, informal) An infestation of pubic lice.

   Although crabs themselves are an easily treated inconvenience, the patient and his partner(s) clearly run major STD risks

4. (slang) A playing card with the rank of three.
5. Short for carabiner.
6. (rowing) A position in rowing where the oar is pushed under the rigger by the force of the water.

	granchio
	crustacean
	Piccolo crostaceo che si muove all'indietro dalle carni commestibili.
	A decapod crustacean covered with a thick exoskeleton, and armed with a single pair of claws.

brachyura

cancro

gambero

piattola

Altri significati:

The crab apple or wild apple.

(rowing) A position in rowing where the oar is pushed under the rigger by the force of the water.

(slang) A playing card with the rank of three.

(British dialect) To cudgel or beat, as with a crabstick

The tree species Carapa guianensis, native of South America.

(obsolete) 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.

(intransitive) ( '''by analogy with the movement of a crab''' ) To move sideways of an aircraft, such as a glider.

(zoology) A crustacean of the infraorder '''Brachyura''' , having five pairs of legs, the foremost of which are in the form of claws, and a carapace.

informal: infestation of pubic lice

Short for carabiner.

To be ill-tempered; to complain or find fault.

(intransitive) To complain.

(intransitive) To fish for crabs.

bad-tempered person

(rare) To back out of something.

(obsolete) To irritate, make surly or sour

A bad-tempered person.

(transitive) ( '''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.

The tree bearing crab apples, which has a dogbane-like bitter bark with medical use.

(in plural crabs , informal) An infestation of pubic lice.

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