| crab | | |
| n. (animal) | 1. crab | decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers. |
| ~ decapod, decapod crustacean | crustaceans characteristically having five pairs of locomotor appendages each joined to a segment of the thorax. |
| ~ brachyura, suborder brachyura | an order of crustaceans (including true crabs) having a reduced abdomen folded against the ventral surface. |
| ~ menippe mercenaria, stone crab | large edible crab of the southern coast of the United States (particularly Florida). |
| ~ hard-shell crab | edible crab that has not recently molted and so has a hard shell. |
| ~ soft-shell crab, soft-shelled crab | edible crab that has recently molted and not yet formed its new shell. |
| ~ cancer magister, dungeness crab | small edible crab of Pacific coast of North America. |
| ~ cancer irroratus, rock crab | crab of eastern coast of North America. |
| ~ cancer borealis, jonah crab | large red deep-water crab of the eastern coast of North America. |
| ~ swimming crab | marine crab with some legs flattened and fringed for swimming. |
| ~ fiddler crab | burrowing crab of American coastal regions having one claw much enlarged in the male. |
| ~ pea crab | tiny soft-bodied crab living commensally in the mantles of certain bivalve mollusks. |
| ~ paralithodes camtschatica, alaska crab, alaska king crab, alaskan king crab, king crab | large edible crab of northern Pacific waters especially along the coasts of Alaska and Japan. |
| ~ spider crab | any of numerous crabs with very long legs and small triangular bodies. |
| n. (person) | 2. crab, crabby person | a quarrelsome grouch. |
| ~ crank, crosspatch, grouch, grump, churl | a bad-tempered person. |
| n. (person) | 3. cancer, crab | (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Cancer. |
| ~ individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul | a human being.; "there was too much for one person to do" |
| ~ astrology, star divination | a pseudoscience claiming divination by the positions of the planets and sun and moon. |
| n. (location) | 4. cancer, cancer the crab, crab | the fourth sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about June 21 to July 22. |
| ~ mansion, planetary house, sign of the zodiac, star sign, sign, house | (astrology) one of 12 equal areas into which the zodiac is divided. |
| n. (food) | 5. crab, crabmeat | the edible flesh of any of various crabs. |
| ~ crab cocktail | a cocktail of cold cooked crabmeat and a sauce. |
| ~ shellfish | meat of edible aquatic invertebrate with a shell (especially a mollusk or crustacean). |
| ~ blue crab | Atlantic crab; most common source of fresh crabmeat. |
| ~ crab legs | legs of especially Alaska king crabs. |
| ~ soft-shell crab, soft-shelled crab | freshly molted crab with new shell still tender and flexible. |
| ~ japanese crab | crabmeat usually canned; from Japan. |
| ~ alaska crab, alaska king crab, alaskan king crab, king crab | meat of large cold-water crab; mainly leg meat. |
| ~ dungeness crab | flesh of Cancer magister (Dungeness crab). |
| ~ stone crab | pale flesh with delicate texture and flavor; found in Florida but now very rare. |
| n. (animal) | 6. crab, crab louse, phthirius pubis, pubic louse | a louse that infests the pubic region of the human body. |
| ~ louse, sucking louse | wingless usually flattened bloodsucking insect parasitic on warm-blooded animals. |
| ~ genus phthirius, genus phthirus, phthirius, phthirus | true lice: crab lice. |
| n. (act) | 7. crab | a stroke of the oar that either misses the water or digs too deeply.; "he caught a crab and lost the race" |
| ~ rowing, row | the act of rowing as a sport. |
| v. (motion) | 8. crab | direct (an aircraft) into a crosswind. |
| ~ air travel, aviation, air | travel via aircraft.; "air travel involves too much waiting in airports"; "if you've time to spare go by air" |
| ~ channelise, channelize, guide, maneuver, steer, manoeuver, manoeuvre, point, head, direct | direct the course; determine the direction of travelling. |
| v. (motion) | 9. crab | scurry sideways like a crab. |
| ~ scamper, scurry, scuttle, skitter | to move about or proceed hurriedly.; "so terrified by the extraordinary ebbing of the sea that they scurried to higher ground" |
| v. (competition) | 10. crab | fish for crab. |
| ~ fish | catch or try to catch fish or shellfish.; "I like to go fishing on weekends" |
| v. (communication) | 11. beef, bellyache, bitch, crab, gripe, grouse, holler, squawk | complain.; "What was he hollering about?" |
| ~ complain, kvetch, plain, quetch, sound off, kick | express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness.; "My mother complains all day"; "She has a lot to kick about" |
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