English Dictionary

crib

/kɹɪb/

verb

(transitive) To place or confine in a crib. / To shut up or confine in a narrow habitation; to cage; to cramp.

She likes to crib her notes before the exam.

意味（1）

(transitive) To place or confine in a crib.

意味（2）

To shut up or confine in a narrow habitation; to cage; to cramp.

if only the vital energy be not cribbed or cramped

意味（3）

(transitive) 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.

意味（4）

(transitive, informal) To plagiarize; to copy; to cheat.

He then proceeded to patch his tags together with the help of his Gradus, producing an incongruous and feeble result of eight elegiac lines, the minimum quantity for his form, and finishing up with two highly moral lines extra, making ten in all, which he cribbed entire from one of his books, beginning O genus humanum, and which he himself must have used a dozen times before, whenever an unfortunate or wicked hero, of whatever nation or language under the sun, was the subject.

意味（5）

(intransitive) To install timber supports, as with cribbing.

意味（6）

(transitive, obsolete) To steal or embezzle, to cheat out of.

There are a brace of birds and hare, that I cribbed this morning out of a basket of game.

意味（7）

(India) To complain, to grumble

She calls on the neighbours, she's out half the time and doesn't answer the telephone, and when I start cribbing she just laughs.

意味（8）

To crowd together, or to be confined, as if in a crib or in narrow accommodations.

[…] who ſought to make the glory of the Nation and Church of England, which was ever Regal and Epiſcopal ſince it was Chriſtian, truckle under a Scotch Canopy, and to make Biſhops to crib in a Presbyterian trundle-bed; as much as Kingly Majeſtie, to be confounded with Democracy.

意味（9）

(intransitive, of a horse) To seize the manger or other solid object with the teeth and draw in wind.