English Dictionary

crab

/kɹæb/

verb

(intransitive) To fish for crabs. / (transitive, US, slang) To ruin. / (intransitive) To complain. / (transitive) To complain about.

I love to crab on the weekends.

意味（1）

(intransitive) To fish for crabs.

意味（2）

(transitive, US, slang) To ruin.

I thought at the time that that little speech meant a savin' of eight dollars,[…] But the Missus crabbed it a few minutes after her and Bess come in the room.

意味（3）

(intransitive) To complain.

“The thing to do is to forget about the heat,” said Tom impatiently. “You make it ten times worse by crabbing about it.”

意味（4）

(transitive) To complain about.

Well, because of this state of things they crabbed his scheme from the first, ridiculed it, wrote against it, spread broadcast a feeling of distrust.

意味（5）

(intransitive) To drift or move sideways or to leeward (by analogy with the movement of a crab).

Mutt stalked forward, matching him, step for step, crabbing sideways the way wolves do when they're going for the kill.

意味（6）

To move in a manner that involves keeping low and clinging to surfaces.

Time slowed down then, became liquid in the aftermath of his grotesque, unfolding limbs; he crabbed his way down the faded line, rocking back and forth in braces he would use all his life.

意味（7）

(transitive, aviation) To navigate (an aircraft, e.g. a glider) sideways against an air current in order to maintain a straight-line course.

意味（8）

(transitive, film, television) To move (a camera) sideways.

If panning is not easy to make seem natural, crabbing the camera is even less like any action we perform with our eyes in the real world. There are a few circumstances in which we walk sideways: […]

意味（9）

(obsolete, World War I), to fly slightly off the straight-line course towards an enemy aircraft, as the machine guns on early aircraft did not allow firing through the propeller disk.

意味（10）

(rare) To back out of something.

“Nothing can possibly go wrong.” “Just as you say, sir. But I still have that feeling.” The blood of the Woosters is hot, and I was about to tell him in set terms what I thought of his bally feeling, when I suddenly spotted what it was that was making him crab the act.