crab

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

crab [crab crabs crabbed crabbing] BrE [kræb] NAmE [kræb] noun
1. countable a sea creature with a hard shell, eight legs and two ↑pincers (= curved and pointed arms for catching and holding things). Crabs move sideways on land.
see also ↑hermit crab
2. uncountable meat from a crab, used for food
•dressed crab
3. crabs (informal)the condition caused by having ↑lice (called crab lice) in the hair around the ↑genitals

Word Origin:
Old English crabba, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch krabbe, and more distantly to Dutch kreeft and German Krebs; also to crab in the sense to grumble.

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  crab louse, pubic louse, Phthirius pubis, crabmeat, Cancer, Cancer the Crab, Crab, crabby person, gripe, bitch, grouse, beef, squawk, bellyache, holler