crib

Plural: cribs

Noun

• baby bed with high sides made of slats
• a literal translation used in studying a foreign language (often used illicitly)
• a bin or granary for storing grains
• the cards discarded by players at cribbage
• a card game (usually for two players) in which each player is dealt six cards and discards one or two
• A baby’s bed with high, often slatted, often moveable sides, suitable for a child who has outgrown a cradle or bassinet.
• A bed for a child older than a baby.
• A small sleeping berth in a packet or other small vessel.
• A wicker basket.
• A manger, a feeding trough for animals elevated off the earth or floor, especially one for fodder such as hay.
• The baby Jesus and the manger in a creche or nativity scene, consisting of statues of Mary, Joseph and various other characters such as the magi.
• A bin for drying or storing grain, as with a corn crib.
• A small room or covered structure, especially one of rough construction, used for storage or penning animals.
• A confined space, as with a cage or office-cubicle
• A job, a position; (British) an appointment.
• A hovel, a roughly constructed building best suited to the shelter of animals but used for human habitation.
• A boxy structure traditionally built of heavy wooden timbers, to support an existing structure from below, as with a mineshaft or a building being raised off its foundation in preparation for being moved; see cribbing.
• A collection of quotes or references for use in speaking, for assembling a written document, or as an aid to a project of some sort; a crib sheet.
• A minor theft, extortion or embezzlement, with or without criminal intent.
• The card game cribbage.
• The cards discarded by players and used by the dealer.
• A known piece of information corresponding to a section of encrypted text, that is then used to work out the remaining sections.
• A small holiday home, often near a beach and of simple construction.
• A snack or packed lunch, especially as taken to work to eat during a break.
• A small raft made of timber.
• The stomach.
• A literal translation, usually of a work originally in Latin or Ancient Greek.
• A cheat sheet or past test used by students; crib sheet.
• One’s residence, house or dwelling place, or usual place of resort.

Verb

Verb Forms: cribbed, cribbing, cribs

• To copy or plagiarize, or to confine closely.
• use a crib, as in an exam
• take unauthorized (intellectual material)
• line with beams or planks
  • "crib a construction hole"
• To place or confine in a crib.
• To shut up or confine in a narrow habitation; to cage; to cramp.
• To collect one or more passages and/or references for use in a speech, written document or as an aid for some task; to create a crib sheet.
• To plagiarize; to copy; to cheat.
• To install timber supports, as with cribbing.
• To steal or embezzle.
• To complain, to grumble
• To crowd together, or to be confined, as if in a crib or in narrow accommodations.
• To seize the manger or other solid object with the teeth and draw in wind.
• To use a known piece of information corresponding to a section of encrypted text, to work out the remaining sections.

Examples

• I cribbed the recipe from the Food Network site, but made a few changes of my own.
• Some players try to CRIB words from online generators, but that’s against the rules!

Synonyms

cot, cribbage, pony, trot, bach

Anagrams of crib