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noun
1.
a child's bed with enclosed sides.
2.
a stall or pen for cattle.
3.
a rack or manger for fodder, as in a stable or barn.
4.
a bin for storing grain, salt, etc.
5.
EXPANDInformal.
a.
a translation, list of correct answers, or other illicit aid used by students while reciting, taking exams, or the like; pony.
c.
a petty theft.
6.
a room, closet, etc., in a factory or the like, in which tools are kept and issued to workers.
7.
a shallow, separate section of a bathing area, reserved for small children.
8.
any confined space.
9.
Slang. a house, shop, etc., frequented by thieves or regarded by thieves as a likely place for burglarizing.
10.
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.
11.
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.
12.
a lining for a well or other shaft.
13.
Slang. one's home; pad.
14.
Cribbage. a set of cards made up by equal contributions from each player's hand, and belonging to the dealer.
15.
a cheap, ill-kept brothel.
16.
a wicker basket.
17.
COLLAPSEBritish, Australian. lunch, especially a cold lunch carried from home to work and eaten by a laborer on the job; snack.
verb (used with object)
18.
Informal. to pilfer or steal, especially to plagiarize (another's writings or ideas).
19.
to confine in or as if in a crib.
20.
to provide with a crib or cribs.
21.
to line with timber or planking.
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Cribbed
is always a great word to know.
So is slumgullion. Does it mean:
| a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc. |
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
verb (used without object)
22.
Informal.
a.
to use a crib in examinations, homework, translating, etc.
b.
to steal; plagiarize.
23.
(of a horse) to practice cribbing.
Origin:
before 1000; Middle English cribbe, Old English crib(b); cognate with Dutch krib, German Krippe; compare crèche
before 1000; Middle English cribbe, Old English crib(b); cognate with Dutch krib, German Krippe; compare crèche
Related forms
un·crib, verb (used with object), -cribbed, -crib·bing.
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crib
O.E. cribbe "manger, fodder bin in cowsheds and fields," from a W.Gmc. root probably related to Ger. krebe "basket." Meaning "child's bed with barred sides" is 1649; probably from frequent use in reference to the manger where infant Jesus was laid. Verb meaning "steal" is 17c. from alternative meaning
EXPAND"a basket," and this is probably source of student slang "plagiarize" (1778). Thieves' slang for "dwelling house" dates to at least 1812. The O.H.G. version passed to Fr. and became creche.
COLLAPSE
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