crab·wise

[krab-wahyz]
adverb
sideways: patrons edging crabwise along the crowded row of theater seats.

Origin:
1900–05; crab + -wise

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crabwise (ˈkræbˌwaɪz) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
adj, —adv
(of motion) sideways; like a crab

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Crabwise is always a great word to know.
So is zedonk. Does it mean:
the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
Example sentences
Though clinging to a violent ideology, it has been groping crabwise towards an accommodation.
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