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- DictionaryCrib/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"
- 2. a translation of a text for use by students, especially in a surreptitious way: informal "an English crib of Caesar's Gallic Wars"
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"
- 2. restrain: archaic "he had been so cabined, cribbed, and confined by office"