crab

crab is a 4-letter English word with 23 senses as noun, adjective, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: One of the brachyuran Crustacea. They are mostly marine, and usually have a broad, short body, covered with a strong shell or carapace. The abdomen is small and curled up beneath the body. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 10 · 23 senses

Definitions

1. noun. One of the brachyuran Crustacea. They are mostly marine, and usually have a broad, short body, covered with a strong shell or carapace. The abdomen is small and curled up beneath the body.
2. noun. The zodiacal constellation Cancer.
3. adjective. A crab apple; -- so named from its harsh taste.
4. adjective. A cudgel made of the wood of the crab tree; a crabstick.
5. adjective. A movable winch or windlass with powerful gearing, used with derricks, etc.
6. adjective. A form of windlass, or geared capstan, for hauling ships into dock, etc.
7. adjective. A machine used in ropewalks to stretch the yarn.
8. adjective. A claw for anchoring a portable machine.
9. transitive verb. To make sour or morose; to embitter.
10. transitive verb. To beat with a crabstick.
11. intransitive verb. To drift sidewise or to leeward, as a vessel.
12. adjective. Sour; rough; austere.
13. noun. a stroke of the oar that either misses the water or digs too deeply

    "he caught a crab and lost the race"

14. noun. decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers
15. noun. a louse that infests the pubic region of the human body
16. noun. the edible flesh of any of various crabs

    Synonyms: crabmeat

17. noun. the fourth sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about June 21 to July 22

    Synonyms: cancer

18. noun. (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Cancer

    Synonyms: cancer

19. noun. a quarrelsome grouch
20. verb. complain

    "What was he hollering about?"

    Synonyms: beef, bellyache, bitch, gripe, grouse, holler, squawk

21. verb. fish for crab
22. verb. scurry sideways like a crab
23. verb. direct (an aircraft) into a crosswind

Synonyms

crabmeat, cancer, beef, bellyache, bitch, gripe, grouse, holler, squawk

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in crab:

carb

Common word forms

crabs, craber, crabbed, crabber, crabbing

Words from these letters

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