(countable, uncountable) Any crustacean of the infraorder Brachyura, having five pairs of legs, the foremost of which are in the form of claws, and a carapace.
(uncountable) The meat of this crustacean, served as food; crabmeat.
(countable, uncountable) Various other animals that resemble true crabs:
(countable, uncountable) Various other animals that resemble true crabs:
(countable, uncountable) A bad-tempered person.
(countable, informal, uncountable) An infestation of pubic lice (Pthirus pubis).
(uncountable) The angle by which an aircraft's nose is pointed upwind of its groundtrack to compensate for crosswinds during an approach to landing; its crab angle.
(countable, slang, uncountable) A playing card with the rank of three.
(countable, uncountable) A position in rowing where the oar is pushed under the rigger by the force of the water.
(countable, uncountable) A defect in an outwardly normal object that may render it inconvenient and troublesome to use.
(countable, dated, uncountable) An unsold book that is returned to the publisher.

(intransitive) To fish for crabs.
(US, slang, transitive) To ruin.
(intransitive) To complain.
(transitive) To complain about.
(intransitive) To drift or move sideways or to leeward (by analogy with the movement of a crab).
To move in a manner that involves keeping low and clinging to surfaces.
(transitive) To move (a camera) sideways.
(transitive) To navigate (an aircraft, e.g. a glider) sideways against an air current in order to maintain a straight-line course.
(World-War-I, obsolete) To fly slightly off the straight-line course towards an enemy aircraft, as the machine guns on early aircraft did not allow firing through the propeller disk.
(rare) To back out of something.

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