crib
The definition of a crib is a bed for a baby that has slats on the side to keep the baby from falling out or getting out, or is a slang term for a house or apartment.
(noun)- The bed where you put your baby that has wooden slats on the side is an example of a crib.
- When you want people to come back to your house, this is an example of a time when you might invite them back to your crib.
To crib is to copy something without authorization or without giving credit to the original author.
(verb)When you copy someone's homework, this is an example of a time when you crib.
See crib in Webster's New World College Dictionary
noun
- a rack, trough, or box for fodder; manger
- a stall for cattle, oxen, etc.
- a small house or room
- a small bed with high sides, for a baby
- a framework of wooden or metal bars for support or strengthening, as in a mine
- a framework or enclosure as for storing grain
- ☆ a structure secured under water, serving as a pier, a water intake, etc.
- Informal
- a petty theft
- a plagiarism
- notes, a translation of a foreign writing, or other aids used, often dishonestly, in doing schoolwork
- Slang the house, apartment, etc. where a person lives
- Cribbage the cards discarded by the players and forming an extra hand for the dealer, counted for points but not played
Origin: ME & OE, ox stall, couch, akin to Ger krippe, Frank *kripja: basic sense “what is woven or plaited, basket” < IE *grebh- < base *ger-, to wind, turn, weave; senses of “steal,” etc. < thieves' slang < orig. sense “to put in a basket”; crib from Biblical application of cribsense
transitive verb cribbed, cribbing
- toshut up in or as in a crib; confine
- to furnish with a crib or cribs
- Informal
- to steal
- to plagiarize
intransitive verb
- to have the habit of crib biting
- Informal to do schoolwork dishonestly, as by using a crib
Related Forms:
- cribber noun
See crib in American Heritage Dictionary 4
noun
- A bed with high sides for a young child or baby.
- a. A small building, usually with slatted sides, for storing corn.b. A rack or trough for fodder; a manger.c. A stall for cattle.
- A small crude cottage or room.
- Slang One's home.
- A framework to support or strengthen a mine or shaft.
- A wicker basket.
- a. A petty theft.b. Plagiarism.c. See pony.
- Games A set of cards made up from discards by each player in cribbage, used by the dealer.
- To confine in or as if in a crib.
- To furnish with a crib.
- a. To plagiarize (an idea or answer, for example).b. To steal.
Origin:
Origin: Middle English, manger
Origin: , from Old English cribb
.Related Forms:
- cribˈber noun
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