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   Crib

   /krib/

   

   noun

   • 1. a young child's bed with barred or latticed sides: North American "tiptoeing over to the crib, he looked down at the sleeping child" Similar cradlebassinetMoses basketcotcarrycot
   • ▪ a barred container or rack for animal fodder; a manger. Similar mangerstalltroughfeeding troughbinboxrackfodder rackbunkercontainerreceptacle
   • 2. a translation of a text for use by students, especially in a surreptitious way: informal "an English crib of Caesar's Gallic Wars" Similar translationkeyguide
   • ▪ a thing that has been plagiarized: "is the song a crib from Mozart's “Don Giovanni?”" Similar copyplagiarismplagiarizationreproductionreplicaduplicationimitationinformal:piraterip-offknockoffdupe
   • 3. an apartment or house: informal North American "there's a chance you might not get back to your crib tonight" Similar houseapartmentpenthousecottagebungalowliving quartersquartersaccommodationhomeresidenceabodeplaceflathome unitinformal:padarchaic:cot
   • 4. short for cribbage
   • ▪ the cards discarded by the players at cribbage, counting to the dealer.
   • 5. a heavy timber framework used in foundations for a building or to line a mine shaft.

   verb

   • 1. copy (another person's work) illicitly or without acknowledgment: informal "he was taking an exam and didn't want anybody to crib the answers from him"
   • ▪ steal. archaic
   • 2. restrain: archaic "he had been so cabined, cribbed, and confined by office"

   Word Origin Old English (in the sense ‘manger’), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch krib, kribbe and German Krippe.

   Derivatives

   • 1. cribber noun

   Scrabble Points: 8

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