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noun
- Decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers.
- synonyms: crab
- A quarrelsome grouch.
- synonyms: crab, crabby person
- Astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Cancer.
- The fourth sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about June 21 to July 22.
- synonyms: Cancer, Cancer the Crab, Crab
- The edible flesh of any of various crabs.
- A louse that infests the pubic region of the human body.
- synonyms: crab louse, pubic louse, crab, Phthirius pubis
- A stroke of the oar that either misses the water or digs too deeply.
- usage: "he caught a crab and lost the race"
- synonyms: crab
- Infestation of the pubic hair by crab lice.
- synonyms: pediculosis pubis
verb
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