crab

英 [kræb]

美 [kræb]

n.  蟹; 螃蟹; 蟹肉; 阴虱寄生病
v.  横行; （遇到侧风或水流、气流时）使（飞机或船）作偏流修正; 捕蟹

复数：crabs　现在分词：crabbing　过去分词：crabbed　过去式：crabbed　第三人称单数：crabs　

CET6考研TOEFLGRETEM8

Collins.1 / BNC.8024 / COCA.5100

牛津词典

noun

• 蟹；螃蟹
  a sea creature with a hard shell, eight legs and two pincers (= curved and pointed arms for catching and holding things). Crabs move sideways on land.
• 蟹肉
  meat from a crab , used for food
  1. dressed crab
     经加工的螃蟹
• 阴虱寄生病
  the condition caused by having lice (called crab lice ) in the hair around the genitals

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 蟹;螃蟹
  Acrabis a sea creature with a flat round body covered by a shell, and five pairs of legs with large claws on the front pair. Crabs usually move sideways.
  1. Crabis the flesh of this creature eaten as food.
     蟹肉

英英释义

noun

• a stroke of the oar that either misses the water or digs too deeply
  1. he caught a crab and lost the race
• decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers
• a louse that infests the pubic region of the human body
  Synonym:crab lousepubic lousePhthirius pubis
• the edible flesh of any of various crabs
  Synonym:crabmeat
• a quarrelsome grouch
  Synonym:crabby person

verb

• complain
  1. What was he hollering about?
  Synonym:gripebitchgrousebeefsquawkbellyacheholler
• fish for crab
• scurry sideways like a crab
• direct (an aircraft) into a crosswind

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