Definitions for crib

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Spelling: [krib]

IPA: /krɪb/

Crib is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 21 anagrams from letters in crib (bcir).

Definitions for crib

noun

1. a child's bed with enclosed sides.
2. a stall or pen for cattle.
3. a rack or manger for fodder, as in a stable or barn.
4. a bin for storing grain, salt, etc.
5. Informal. a translation, list of correct answers, or other illicit aid used by students while reciting, taking exams, or the like; pony. plagiarism. a petty theft.
6. a room, closet, etc., in a factory or the like, in which tools are kept and issued to workers.
7. a shallow, separate section of a bathing area, reserved for small children.
8. any confined space.
9. Slang. a house, shop, etc., frequented by thieves or regarded by thieves as a likely place for burglarizing.
10. Building Trades, Civil Engineering. any of various cellular frameworks of logs, squared timbers, or steel or concrete objects of similar form assembled in layers at right angles, often filled with earth and stones and used in the construction of foundations, dams, retaining walls, etc.
11. a barrier projecting part of the way into a river and then upward, acting to reduce the flow of water and as a storage place for logs being floated downstream.
12. a lining for a well or other shaft.
13. Slang. one's home; pad.
14. Cribbage. a set of cards made up by equal contributions from each player's hand, and belonging to the dealer.
15. a cheap, ill-kept brothel.
16. a wicker basket.
17. British, Australian. lunch, especially a cold lunch carried from home to work and eaten by a laborer on the job; snack.

verb (used with object)

1. Informal. to pilfer or steal, especially to plagiarize (another's writings or ideas).
2. to confine in or as if in a crib.
3. to provide with a crib or cribs.
4. to line with timber or planking.

verb (used without object)

1. Informal. to use a crib in examinations, homework, translating, etc. to steal; plagiarize.
2. (of a horse) to practice cribbing.

Origin of crib

before 1000; Middle English cribbe, Old English crib(b); cognate with Dutch krib, German Krippe; cf. crèche

Examples for crib

My chest pressed into the foot of the crib, arms outstretched through bars, I wailed at an open door to an empty staircase.

The farmer might come out at any time to his crib, and they felt that they must be up and away.

Sally was a year younger than me but she had a real bed, and I still had a crib.

"A crib that will soon house more than corn," said the sergeant.

After lunch, I put Julia in her crib for a nap, and though she struggled, the excitement of the day took her under.

Did Geert Wilders, the famously xenophobic Dutch politician, crib from the Nazis for his latest anti-immigrant tirade?

She started forward, but Martin stepped between herself and the crib.

Lynch, ever the spirited mind in flight, never had to crib much from infatuations of college boys.

For their construing I have been given what schoolboys call a crib.

How'd you like to be lyin' helpless in a crib with a big rat gnawin' your ear?