crib
a child's bed with enclosed sides.
a stall or pen for cattle.
a rack or manger for fodder, as in a stable or barn.
a bin for storing grain, salt, etc.
Informal.
a translation, list of correct answers, or other illicit aid used by students while reciting, taking exams, or the like; pony.
a petty theft.
a room, closet, etc., in a factory or the like, in which tools are kept and issued to workers.
a shallow, separate section of a bathing area, reserved for small children.
any confined space.
Slang. a house, shop, etc., frequented by thieves or regarded by thieves as a likely place for burglarizing.
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.
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.
a lining for a well or other shaft.
Slang. one's home; pad.
Cribbage. a set of cards made up by equal contributions from each player's hand, and belonging to the dealer.
a cheap, ill-kept brothel.
a wicker basket.
British, Australian. lunch, especially a cold lunch carried from home to work and eaten by a laborer on the job; snack.
Informal. to pilfer or steal, especially to plagiarize (another's writings or ideas).
to confine in or as if in a crib.
to provide with a crib or cribs.
to line with timber or planking.
Informal.
to use a crib in examinations, homework, translating, etc.
to steal; plagiarize.
(of a horse) to practice cribbing.
Origin of crib
1Other words from crib
- un·crib, verb (used with object), un·cribbed, un·crib·bing.
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How to use crib in a sentence
Dan Evans, then the team’s assistant GM, was impressed with her smarts—and the fact that she didn’t get flustered when she entered his office and found a spit cloth on his shoulder and his 3-month-old baby napping in a crib.
How Kim Ng, Major League Baseball's First Female GM, Finally Got the Top Job | Sean Gregory | March 3, 2021 | TimeSet up the base station within 100 feet of the baby’s crib and Bluetooth technology will transmit pulse rate and blood oxygen levels.
Best baby monitor: How to find the right one for your family | PopSci Commerce Team | January 29, 2021 | Popular-ScienceGray lifted her daughter, just shy of two at the time, from her crib, telling her the family was going on a fun trip with the dogs.
The Long-Lasting Mental Health Effects of Wildfires | Jane C. Hu | December 3, 2020 | Outside OnlineThinking this was strange, they later put in a video camera and then caught the father and the 19-year-old schoolmate of mine going from crib to crib fondling babies.
There’s no assumption of personal privacy in someone else’s crib.
Others cheated by taking crib sheets to the blackboard with them, concealing them from Jackson but not from the other students.
Stonewall Jackson, VMI’s Most Embattled Professor | S. C. Gwynne | November 29, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe American Academy of Pediatrics advocates for infants to be put to sleep in a bare crib to prevent SIDS.
Kids Eat the Darndest Things: Laundry Pods, Teething Necklaces, and More Of The Weirdest Stuff Sending Kids to the E.R. | Russell Saunders | November 14, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTA bed for people with special needs—essentially a large crib—can cost about $10,000.
He is now able to climb out of a regular crib, largely in virtue of his height.
After lunch, I put Julia in her crib for a nap, and though she struggled, the excitement of the day took her under.
Then, kindly and gently, the boy took Squinty over to the place where the corn crib was built on to the barn.
Squinty the Comical Pig | Richard BarnumThe ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel hath not known me, and my people hath not understood.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version | VariousA short time after, while Willy was asleep in his crib, his mamma went out to draw some water.
Among other things, the rhinoceros was knocked so heavily against the bars of his crib that they began to give way.
The Floating Light of the Goodwin Sands | R.M. BallantyneHepzebiah never stirred in her crib, and Jehosophat lay dreaming of something very pleasant.
Seven O'Clock Stories | Robert Gordon Anderson
British Dictionary definitions for crib
/ (krɪb) /
a child's bed with slatted wooden sides; cot
a cattle stall or pen
a fodder rack or manger
a bin or granary for storing grain, etc
a small crude cottage or room
US informal a house or residence
NZ a weekend cottage: term is South Island usage only
any small confined space
informal a brothel
a wicker basket
a representation of the manger in which the infant Jesus was laid at birth
informal a theft, esp of another's writing or thoughts
Also called (esp US): pony informal, mainly British a translation of a foreign text or a list of answers used by students, often illicitly, as an aid in lessons, examinations, etc
short for cribbage
cribbage the discard pile
Also called: cribwork a framework of heavy timbers laid in layers at right angles to one another, used in the construction of foundations, mines, etc
a storage area for floating logs contained by booms
Australian and NZ a packed lunch taken to work
(tr) to put or enclose in or as if in a crib; furnish with a crib
(tr) informal to steal (another's writings or thoughts)
(intr) informal to copy either from a crib or from someone else during a lesson or examination
(tr) to line (a construction hole) with timber beams, logs, or planks
(intr) informal to grumble
Origin of crib
1Derived forms of crib
- cribber, noun
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