crib
/kɹɪb/ verb C2- To place or confine in a crib.
- To shut up or confine in a narrow habitation; to cage; to cramp.
- To collect one or more passages and/or references for use in a speech, written document or as an aid for some task; to create a crib sheet. · I cribbed the recipe from the Food Network site, but made a few changes of my own.
- To plagiarize; to copy; to cheat.
- To install timber supports, as with cribbing.
- To complain, to grumble
- To crowd together, or to be confined, as if in a crib or in narrow accommodations.
- To seize the manger or other solid object with the teeth and draw in wind.
He/she/it cribs · Past cribbed · Past participle cribbed · -ing form cribbing
Verb forms
- Base form
- crib
- He/she/it
- cribs
- Past
- cribbed
- Past participle
- cribbed
- -ing form
- cribbing
From the library
If my hair would only change colour, here’s a nice little crib all ready for me to step into.’
He’ll crack a crib in Scotland one week, and be raising money to build an orphanage in Cornwall the next.
Other matches
Learn crib in real texts
With a free account, hover any word in the library for its meaning, hear it read aloud, save words for review timed to your memory, and see how much of each book you already know.