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crabs, plural;
  1. Grumble, typically about something petty
    • - on picnics, I would crab about sand in my food
  2. Act so as to spoil
    • - you're trying to crab my act
Noun
  1. An irritable person

  1. decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers
  2. direct (an aircraft) into a crosswind
  3. a quarrelsome grouch
  4. scurry sideways like a crab
  5. Cancer: (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Cancer
  6. fish for crab
  7. True crabs are decapod crustaceans of the infraorder Brachyura, which typically have a very short projecting "tail" (βραχύς / brachys = short, οὐρά / οura = tail), or where the reduced abdomen is entirely hidden under the thorax. ...
  8. In cryptography, Crab is a block cipher proposed by Burt Kaliski and Matt Robshaw at the first Fast Software Encryption workshop in 1993. Not really intended for use, Crab was developed to demonstrate how ideas from hash functions could be used to create a fast cipher.
  9. This is a list of fictional characters in the Kirby video game series developed by Nintendo.
  10. Pokémon has 493 (as of Pokémon Diamond and Pearl) distinctive fictional species classified as the titular Pokémon. ...
  11. The Crab is the name given to a body position sometimes seen in basic gymnastics, yoga, and breakdancing. The body is supinated so that the back faces the ground, the legs are bent like sitting in a chair, and the arms extend straight backward. ...
  12. A crab is a type of scratch used by turntablists. It is made from a combination of moving the record on the turntable by hand and quick movement of the crossfader.
  13. A crustacean of the infraorder Brachyura, having five pairs of legs, the foremost of which are in the form of claws, and a carapace; A bad-tempered person; An infestation of pubic lice; A playing card with the rank of three; Short for carabiner; A position in rowing where the oar is pushed ...
  14. (crabbed) Bad-tempered or cantankerous; Cramped, bent; Crowded together and difficult to read
  15. (crabs) pubic lice
  16. (Crabbing) Dog moves with body at an angle to the line of travel.
  17. (Crabbing) Process used for worsted fabrics to set them in a smooth flat state so that they will not distort during subsequent wet processing. Essentially the fabric is stabilized by treating the fabric under warp-wise tension in hot or boiling water and allowing it to cool whle still under tension.
  18. (Crabbing) A canopy is crabbing when it is flown at an angle sideways to the ambient wind, resulting in a path across the ground that is sideways as well as forwards.
  19. (Crabbing) A conflict behaviour in ridden and in-hand horses where the horse fails to go straight and the resistance manifests as a sideways and forward (frequently alternating the direction) crab-like motor behaviour. Crabbing may also be associated with a hyper-reactive horse under restraint.
  20. (Crabbing) A dog moving at an angle as it goes away. Because of length of stifle, the dog cannot properly place its rear feer in relation to its front feet and so has to place back feet to the side of the front paws. Mimics the sideways movement of a crab. ...
  21. (Crabbing) Flying a hang glider at some angle to the prevailing wind. Crabbing can allow a pilot to stay in ridge lift, thusly flying parallel to the slope while not drifting either backward or forward in relation to the ground. ...
  22. (Crabbing) Going sideways; making a lot of leeway.
  23. (Crabbing) Vibration or binding condtion usually found when in 2 axis system where the supports are spaced significantly apart from the driven axis. The following axis tends to move in a jerky motion.
  24. (Crabbing) When a hawk seizes another, either by mistake when with another on a quarry or on purpose when quarreling or fighting.
  25. (Crabs) To dream of crabs, indicates that you will have many complicated affairs, for the solving of which you will be forced to exert the soundest judgment. This dream portends to lovers a long and difficult courtship.