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Crib

noun
/kɹɪb/
Word Frequency: 1.3

Definitions

1.nounA baby’s bed with high, often slatted, often moveable sides, suitable for a child who has outgrown a cradle or bassinet.
2.nounA bed for a child older than a baby.
3.nounA small sleeping berth in a packet ship or other small vessel
4.nounA wicker basket; compare Moses basket.
5.nounA manger, a feeding trough for animals elevated off the earth or floor, especially one for fodder such as hay.
6.nounThe baby Jesus and the manger in a creche or nativity scene, consisting of statues of Mary, Joseph and various other characters such as the magi.
7.nounA bin for drying or storing grain, as with a corn crib.
8.nounA small room or covered structure, especially one of rough construction, used for storage or penning animals.
9.nounA confined space, as with a cage or office-cubicle
10.nounA job, a position; (British), an appointment.
11.nounA hovel, a roughly constructed building best suited to the shelter of animals but used for human habitation.
12.nounOne’s residence, or where one normally hangs out. A house or dwelling place.
13.nounA boxy structure traditionally built of heavy wooden timbers, to support an existing structure from below, as with a mineshaft or a building being raised off its foundation in preparation for being moved; see cribbing.
14.noun(usually in the plural) A collection of quotes or references for use in speaking, for assembling a written document, or as an aid to a project of some sort; a crib sheet.
15.nounA minor theft, extortion or embezzlement, with or without criminal intent.
16.nounThe card game cribbage.
17.nounThe cards discarded by players and used by the dealer.
18.nounA known piece of information corresponding to a section of encrypted text, that is then used to work out the remaining sections.
19.nounA small holiday home, often near a beach and of simple construction.
20.nounA packed lunch taken to work.
21.nounA small raft made of timber.
22.noun(thieves' cant) The stomach.
23.nounA cheat sheet or past test used by students; crib sheet.
24.verbTo place or confine in a crib.
25.verbTo shut up or confine in a narrow habitation; to cage; to cramp.
26.verbTo collect one or more passages and/or references for use in a speech, written document or as an aid for some task; to create a crib sheet.
"I cribbed the recipe from the Food Network site, but made a few changes of my own."
27.verbTo plagiarize; to copy; to cheat.
28.verbTo install timber supports, as with cribbing.
29.verbTo steal or embezzle, to cheat out of.
30.verb(Indian English) To complain, to grumble
31.verbTo crowd together, or to be confined, as if in a crib or in narrow accommodations.
32.verb(of a horse) To seize the manger or other solid object with the teeth and draw in wind.

Synonyms

bachcotponytrotcribbagemattresscradlepadsacklockerwardrobebedside

Rhymes With

glibribad libbibnibjiblibgib
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