" crabs "

[Noun]  | "crab" | \ ˈkrab \

1: any of numerous chiefly marine broadly built decapod crustaceans:

2: any of an infraorder (Brachyura) with a short broad usually flattened carapace, a small abdomen that curls forward beneath the body, short antennae, and the anterior pair of limbs modified as grasping pincers

3: any of various crustaceans of an infraorder (Anomura) resembling true crabs in the more or less reduced condition of the abdomen

Origin: before 12th century ;

 Middle English crabbe, from Old English crabba; akin to Old High German krebiz crab and perhaps to Old English ceorfan to carve {mat|carve|};

[Noun]  | "crab" 

1: crab apple

Origin: 14th century ;

 Middle English crabbe, perhaps from crabbe {see: |crab:1|crab:1};

[Noun]  | "crab" 

1: an ill-tempered person : grouch

Origin: 1580 ;

[Noun]  | "Alaskan king crab" 

1: any of three king crabs (Parlithodes camtschaticus, P. platypus, and Lithodes aequispinus) harvested commercially in waters off the coast of Alaska

Origin: 1940 ;

[Noun]  | "blue crab" 

1: a large bluish-green edible crab (Callinectes sapidus of the family Portunidae) of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts

Origin: 1763 ;

[Noun]  | "coconut crab" 

1: a large burrowing land crab (Birgus latro) that is widely distributed about islands of the tropical Indian and Pacific oceans, has a varied omnivorous diet that includes coconuts, and possesses an oily flesh which is esteemed as a local delicacy

Origin: 1848 ;

[Noun]  | "Dunge*ness crab" | \ ˌdən-jə-ˌnes- \

1: a large edible crab (Metacarcinus magister) of the Pacific coast of North America from Alaska to California

Origin: 1896 ;

 Dungeness, village on the Strait of Juan de Fuca, Washington;

[Noun]  | "fiddler crab" 

1: any of several genera (such as Austruca, Leptuca, or Uca) of burrowing crabs in which the male has one claw that is greatly enlarged

Origin: 1843 ;

[Verb]  | "crab" 

1: to fish for crabs

2: to move sideways indirectly or diagonally

3: to crab an airplane

Origin: 1657 ;

[Verb]  | "crab" 

1: to make sullen : sour

2: to complain about peevishly

3: spoil, ruin

Origin: 1662 ;

 Middle English crabben, probably back-formation from crabbed;

[Noun]  | "crabs" 

[Noun]  | "crab" 

[Verb]  | "crabs" 

[Verb]  | "crab"