plural cribs
1
: a manger for feeding animals
2
: an enclosure especially of framework: such as
a
: a stall for a stabled animal
b
: a small child's bedstead with high enclosing usually slatted sides
c
: any of various devices resembling a crate or framework in structure
d
: a building for storage : bin
3
b
chiefly African American English slang
: home sense 1a
I just wasn't in school. I was at the crib, chilling …—unidentified speaker, quoted in Corpus of Regional African American Language
c
: a room or shack used for sex work
4
: the cards discarded in cribbage for the dealer to use in scoring
5
a
: a small theft
b
c
: a literal translation
especially
: pony sense 3
d
: a summary and key to understanding a literary work
e
: something used for cheating in an examination
6
cribbed; cribbing
2
: to provide with or put into a crib
especially
: to line or support with a framework of timber
3
: pilfer, steal
especially
: plagiarize
1
a
: steal, plagiarize
b
: to use a crib : cheat
2
: to have the vice of cribbing
cribber
noun
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