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say it: krab
crab is a noun and verb meaning "decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers". It is pronounced /ˈkɹæb/ — krab. It carries 11 recorded senses.
decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers
a quarrelsome grouch
the fourth sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about June 21 to July 22
the edible flesh of any of various crabs
a louse that infests the pubic region of the human body
a stroke of the oar that either misses the water or digs too deeply
“he caught a crab and lost the race”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for crab come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.