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Definition: Crabs |
CrabsNoun1. Infestation of the pubic hair by crab lice. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "crabs" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of crabs, indicates that you will have many complicated affairs, for the solving of which you will be forced to exert the soundest judgment. This dream portends to lovers a long and difficult courtship. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Health | Chiefly marine, largely carnivorous crustaceans including the genera: Cancer, Uca, and Callinectes. It includes crabs as food. (references) |
Slang | A white person. (references) |
Slang in 1811 | CRABS. A losing throw to the main at hazard. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
CRABS | English | Cellular Radio Access for Broadband Services | Computing |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonym: CrabsSynonym: pediculosis pubis (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Irascibility | Cross, cross as crabs, cross as two sticks, cross as a cat, cross as a dog, cross as the tongs; fractious, peevish, acari_tre. in a bad temper; sulky; a; angry. resentful, resentive; vindictive. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Yeah, I was just looking at crabs! (Trapped; writing credit: Greg Iles) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Crabs Iss Crabs (1918) | |
Song Titles | Crabs Walk Sideways (performing artist: Smothers Brothers) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Seagrass extending offshore from mangrove shoreline Seagrass is critical habitat for shrimps, crabs, and small fish. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Preparing Maryland Blue Crabs for the dinner table. Passing on the knowledge of the Chesapeake Bay from generation to generation. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | A haul of shrimp, squid, and red crabs on the sorting table. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | Fishing for blue crabs with traps in a tidal stream. Credit: Fisheries. |
 | Holding pens for soft-shell "peeler" blue crabs. Credit: Fisheries. |  | A scientist measures the number and size of blue crabs taken during the crab- pot collection phase of the sampling process for the project. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
 | Judd Kenworthy, NOAA scientist Beaufort Lab, shows the cages that were designed to protect the newly transplanted eelgrass plants from predation by small crabs. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | Jobos Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. Fiddler crabs inhabit mudflats. They help provide nutrients and oxygen to the soil with their constant burrowing in the sediments. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). |
 | North Inlet - Winyah Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. A survey of fishes is conducted bi-weekly at the North Inlet - Winyah Bay NERR. Fishes, shrimps, and crabs are collected in a net and brought back to a seawater laboratory for processing. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). |  | Galatheid crabs are common burrow-dwellers on the continental slope. Munida iris. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP). |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Ruthie and Winfield came out of their bed like hermit crabs from shells. |
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Economic History | Bahamas | Based on value, sponges were the second most significant export ($1.5 million), followed by conch ($1.0 million) and stone crabs ($0.7 million). (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Crabs" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 87.50% of the time. "Crabs" is used about 168 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 87.5% | 147 | 25,998 |
| Noun (proper) | 7.14% | 12 | 101,599 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 5.36% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Total | 100.00% | 168 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "crabs": Horseshoe Crabs. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "crabs": ghost-crabs, land-crabs. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
hermit crabs | 1,413 | steamed crabs | 23 |
crabs | 1,083 | stds crabs | 23 |
horseshoe crabs | 146 | cooking crabs | 22 |
blue crabs | 116 | body crabs | 21 |
std crabs | 88 | catching crabs | 21 |
maryland crabs | 80 | crabs pet | 21 |
soft shell crabs | 75 | crabs freshwater | 20 |
picture of crabs | 74 | crabs hermit sale | 20 |
fiddler crabs | 73 | pet hermit crabs | 19 |
land hermit crabs | 60 | care of hermit crabs | 19 |
stone crabs | 37 | crabs picture std | 18 |
maryland blue crabs | 35 | blue claw crabs | 18 |
crabs genital | 33 | eat crabs | 17 |
crabs sand | 32 | hermit crabs as pet | 17 |
dungeness crabs | 29 | crabs.com hermit | 17 |
crabs joes stone | 29 | crabs land | 16 |
pubic crabs | 26 | live crabs | 15 |
crabs humboldt | 26 | catch crabs | 14 |
crabs hermet | 25 | crabs type | 14 |
picture of hermit crabs | 25 | caring for hermit crabs | 14 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "crabs"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 螃蟹 (Crab). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | taskekrabber, taskekrabbe-familien. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | krabben (scratch). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | taskuravut-heimo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | crabes dormeurs, \CAD. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Krabben (crab). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κάβουρες, καβούρια. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | lapostetű (crab). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | granciporri, grancipori, granchi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 게 (Crab). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | abscray sapateiras. (various references) краб-плавунец (swimming crabs), порцелланиды (porcelain crabs). (various references) bueyes. (various references) krabbtaskor. (various references) iki as, açar kâğıt. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Cancridae. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "crabs": crabstick, crabsticks. (additional references) | |
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"Crabs" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: carabas, Carbh, carbs, caribs, Carrabus, crabb, crabba, crabe, Craib, Craobh, cras, Crays, creb, crebo, Ctab, krab, Krabi, krabs, rabs. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "crabs" (pronounced kra"bz) |
| 4 | -r a" b z | drabs, grabs. |
| 3 | -a" b z | abs, cabs, jabs, labs, prefabs, scabs, slabs, stabs, tabs. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: carbs. | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-r-s" | |
-1 letter: arbs, arcs, bars, bras, cabs, carb, cars, crab, scab, scar. | |
-2 letters: abs, arb, arc, ars, bar, bas, bra, cab, car, ras, sab, sac. | |
-3 letters: ab, ar, as, ba. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-c-r-s" | |
+1 letter: braces, brachs, bracts, cabers, carbos, carobs, cobras, scarab. | |
+2 letters: ascribe, backers, bicarbs, boraces, boxcars, bracers, braches, buckras, cambers, carbons, carboys, caribes, corbans, crambes, crambos, fabrics, rubaces, scarabs, scribal, subrace. | |
+3 letters: abreacts, abstract, abstrict, acerbest, acrobats, aerobics, arabicas, arbuscle, ascorbic, ascribed, ascribes, baccaras, backrest, backrush, baldrics, barbasco, barchans, barracks, batchers, bawdrics, bearcats, becharms, becrawls, berascal, braceros, brachets, bracings, brackens, brackets, brackish, branches, brassica, breaches, breccias, brechams, brechans, brisance, broaches, brocades, buckrams, cabarets, cabestro, cabresta, cabresto, calibers, calibres, cambrics, carabaos, carabids, carabins, carbarns, carbides, carbines, carboras, caribous, catbirds, chambers, clabbers, clambers, corbinas, cordobas, crabbers, crabwise, cramboes, crossbar, crowbars, cudbears, embraces, isobaric, labrusca, runbacks, saprobic, scabbard, scabbier, scabrous, scrabble, scrabbly, scramble, subacrid, subraces, subtract, subvicar, tribasic, unbraces. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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