crib

1. 1.

   use a crib, as in an exam

   Broadercheat
2. 2.

   take unauthorized (intellectual material)

   Broaderplagiarize

   crime

3. 3.

   line with beams or planks

   “crib a construction hole”

   Broaderline

Other forms of crib

plural

cribs·

past tense or participle

cribbed

present participle

cribbing

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.

Questions about crib

What does crib mean?

crib means "baby bed with high sides made of slats". That is the primary sense; the word has 8 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in crib?

crib has 1 syllable: crib. In IPA it is /ˈkɹɪb/.

What is another word for crib?

Close synonyms include cot, pony, trot, cribbage. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is crib a common word?

crib is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with crib?

1 word rhymes with crib. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.