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Verb
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cribs, plural;
  1. Copy (another person's work) illicitly or without acknowledgment
    • - he was doing an exam and didn't want anybody to crib the answers from him
    • - he often cribbed from other researchers
  2. Steal

  3. Restrain
    • - he had been so cabined, cribbed, and confined by office
Noun
  1. A young child's bed with barred or latticed sides

  2. A barred container or rack for animal fodder; a manger

  3. A translation of a text for use by students, esp. in a surreptitious way
    • - an English crib of Caesar's Gallic Wars
  4. A thing that has been plagiarized
    • - is the song a crib from Mozart's “Don Giovanni?”
  5. An apartment or house

  6. The cards discarded by the players at cribbage, counting to the dealer

  7. A heavy timber framework used in foundations for a building or to line a mine shaft


  1. baby bed with high sides made of slats
  2. use a crib, as in an exam
  3. pony: a literal translation used in studying a foreign language (often used illicitly)
  4. take unauthorized (intellectual material)
  5. a bin or granary for storing grains
  6. line with beams or planks; "crib a construction hole"
  7. The known-plaintext attack (KPA) or crib is an attack model for cryptanalysis where the attacker has samples of both the plaintext and its encrypted version (ciphertext), and is at liberty to make use of them to reveal further secret information such as secret keys and code books. ...
  8. An infant bed (commonly referred to as a cot in British English and a crib (or far less commonly as a cradle or stock) in American English) is a small bed specifically for infants and very young children, generally up to 3 years old.
  9. Bach (pronounced Batch, with the alternative of Crib in the southern part of New Zealand) is the name given in New Zealand to structures akin to small, often very modest holiday homes or beach houses. ...
  10. (The Cribs) The Cribs are an English four-piece indie rock band from Wakefield, West Yorkshire. The band consists of twins Gary and Ryan Jarman and their younger brother Ross Jarman. ...
  11. (The Cribs (album)) The Cribs was the title of The Cribs' debut album released in 2004. It was recorded in 7 days in mid/late 2003 at London's Toe-Rag Studios, a vintage styled 8 track studio in the Hackney area. ...
  12. A baby’s bed (British and Australasian cot) with high, often slatted, often moveable sides, suitable for a child who has outgrown a cradle or bassinet; A bed for a child older than a baby; A small sleeping berth in a packet ship or other small vessel; A wicker basket; compare Moses basket; A ...
  13. (Cribs) were fundamental to the British approach to breaking Enigma, but guessing the plaintext for a message was a highly skilled business. So in 1940 Stuart Milner-Barry set up a special Crib Room in Hut 8.^[101]^[102]
  14. Pen of short logs assembled cabin style. When a crib is filled with rocks it can be used as a pier to support certain types of bridges (8).
  15. Network of cast iron used to support the cope when no cope flask is used.
  16. 1) stadium, ballpark, your own home.
  17. house or apartment. (African-American usage)
  18. Code name for the MessagePad 110/120/130 charging cradle. Also referred to as the Lindy Crib. See also Lindy. Source: VR
  19. (Greek phatne ; Latin praesepe, praesepium .) The
  20. a small abode; a tiny room; also, a saloon, 'dive', or brothel
  21. (1) The ballast or the open space between two adjacent crossties, (2) A crisscross structure of logs, timber, concrete or other members, used to retain a fill or as a bridge support.
  22. A timber box, built log cabin-style, filled with stone.
  23. A foundation usually constructed of timber and filled with rock and/or concrete. Sometimes sheathed with steel plate.
  24. Same as pad.Hey, baby, come on up to my crib awhile and relax.
  25. heavy wood blocks and framing used as a foundation