Origin: (1-3) Old English crabba (4) 1800-1900 crabbed
1 [countable, uncountable] a sea animal with a round flat shell and two large claws on its front legs, or the meat from this animal: Alaskan king crabs I’ll have the crab cakes, please.2[usually singular] informal someone who easily becomes annoyed about unimportant things: She’s such a crab.3crabs [plural]medicine a medical condition in which a type of louse is in the hair around the sexual organs
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crabcrab2 verb (crabbed, crabbing) [intransitive]1to catch crabs2informal to complain about something