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CRABS

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Infestation of the pubic hair by crab lice

Synonyms:

crabs; pediculosis pubis

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("crabs" is a kind of...):

lousiness; pediculosis (infestation with lice (Pediculus humanus) resulting in severe itching)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Present simple (third person singular) of the verb crab

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 Context examples: 

I went into the out-house to look about me; and the very same lobsters, crabs, and crawfish possessed by the same desire to pinch the world in general, appeared to be in the same state of conglomeration in the same old corner.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

On my imparting this discovery in confidence to Peggotty, she informed me that her brother dealt in lobsters, crabs, and crawfish; and I afterwards found that a heap of these creatures, in a state of wonderful conglomeration with one another, and never leaving off pinching whatever they laid hold of, were usually to be found in a little wooden outhouse where the pots and kettles were kept.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)