Crib

Definition: Crib

Crib

Noun

1. Baby bed with high sides.

2. A literal translation used in studying a foreign language (often used illicitly).

3. A card game in which each player is dealt 6 cards and discards one or two to make up the crib.

Verb

1. Use a crib, as in an exam.

2. Take unauthorized (intellectual material).

3. Line with beams or planks, as of construction holes.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "crib" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1601. (references)

Sports & Leisure

Building & Civil Engineering

Food & Agriculture

Literature

Medicine

Mining

Slang

Slang in 1811

Transportation

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

CRIB

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Crib

Interpretation

Translation; rendering, rendition; redition; literal translation, free translation; key; secret; clew; (indication); clavis, crib, pony, trot.

Memory

Prompt-book; crib sheet, cheat sheet.

Parsimony

Miser, churl, screw, skinflint, crib, codger, muckworm, scrimp, lickpenny, hunks, curmudgeon, Harpagon, harpy, extortioner, Jew, usurer; Hessian; pinch fist, pinch penny.

Stealing

Verb: steal, thieve, rob, mug, purloin, pilfer, filch, prig, bag, nim, crib, cabbage, palm; abstract; appropriate, plagiarize.

Support

Noun: support, ground, foundation, base, basis; terra firma; bearing, fulcrum, bait, caudex crib; point d'appui, gr/pou sto/gr, purchase footing, hold, locus standi; landing place, landing stage; stage, platform; block; rest, resting place; groundwork, substratum, riprap, sustentation, subvention; floor; (basement).

Bed, berth, pallet, tester, crib, cot, hammock, shakedown, trucklebed, cradle, litter, stretcher, bedstead; four poster, French bed, bunk, kip, palang; bedding, bichhona, mattress, paillasse; pillow, bolster; mat, rug, cushion.

Crosswords: Crib

Manx (rack ), Welsh (brow, comb, crest, ridge).

We can hang in my crib. I will show you my 'hood (Rush Hour; writing credit: Jim Kouf)

Crib! Crib (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

Invite me over to your crib, baby (C.S.I.: Crime Scene Investigation; writing credit: Kenta Fukasaku; Koshun Takami)

It's great getting back in the crib, I sleep easier when I'm behind bars (Baby Blues; writing credit: Neal Boushell; Leonard Dick)

Hey, man, just checking out your crib here (Richie Rich; writing credit: Tom S. Parker)

When in the crib they found him (Mary's Boy Child/Oh My Lord; performing artist: Boney M)

Go to the crib she got the Gucci linen' (Hey Ma; performing artist: Cam'ron)

Got a crib wit a studio and it's all full of tracks (Forgot About Dre; performing artist: Dr. dre)

Run in they crib and at least leave with some little cheap stuff (Murder Murder (Remix) *; performing artist: Eminem)

Having honeys come to the crib (Hey Papi; performing artist: Jay-Z)

It take many nails to build crib, but one screw to fill it. (references; author: unknown)

Ko-Ko's Crib (1929)

The Empty Crib (1911)

Claude's Crib (1997)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Black Baby White Hands: A View from the Crib (reference)

• Crib Notes for the First Year of Marriage: A Survival Guide for Newlyweds (reference)

• How to Discipline With Love: From Crib to College (reference)

• Peter Rabbit Crib Bumper Book (reference)

• Santa at the Crib Make-It-Yourself Book TM. (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Rugrats - Tales from the Crib (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Crib Notes (reference)

• Sonny's Crib (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Consumer Goods

• Quilted Crib Mattress Pad (reference)

• UltraSoft Quilted Crib Mattress Pad (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Edison Wood Products, Inc., publicity photo, no. 431, three-quarter crib;{19.000/30}.

[Baby crib and dresser]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Table, crib, and crib post. Credit: Library of Congress.

It was a crib -- there were two bundle-beds! --. Credit: Library of Congress.

Old Aunt Julia Ann Jackson, age 102 and the corn crib where she lives. Credit: Library of Congress.

Photograph of copy of first ransom note pinned to the crib of Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr., when he was kidnapped. Credit: Library of Congress.

Silo and corn crib. Black Hawk County, Iowa. Credit: Library of Congress.

Hogs and corn crib. Boone County, Missouri. Credit: Library of Congress.

Thomas J. Meaney family and children. Meaney baby in crib with stuffed animal. Credit: Library of Congress.

Malcolm P. Hanson, Jr., son of Lieut. Hanson, chief radio engineer of the Byrd expedition, who will be three months old on Feb. 22nd, in crib. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Health

Techniques for accomplishing this include turning the head to one side for a week or so and then changing to the other, reversing the head-to-toe axis in the crib, and changing the orientation of the baby to outside activity (e.g., the door of the room). (references)

Experience from sleep position campaigns overseas suggests that most infants can be stabilized in the side position by bringing the infant's dependent arm forward, at right angles to the body, with the infant's back propped against the side of the crib. There should be no need for additional support. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "crib": christmas crib ♦ crib dam ♦ crib death ♦ crib for cattle ♦ crib sheet ♦ log crib ♦ log crib construction ♦ stone crib ♦ To crack a crib. Additional references.

Beginning with "crib": crib-bite, Crib-biter, crib-biting.

Ending with "crib": corn-crib.

Albanian

shtëpizë (hut, Lodge), rras (Bury, clap, clench, cram, fling, huddle, jam, pop, ram, stuff, tamp, thrust, vice), mbyll (bung, calk, caulk, close, close up, commit, confine, dry up, encase, enclose, encompass, end, entomb, fasten, furl, glue up, hush up, impound, inclose, key, lap, obturate, occlude, pen, screw on, seal, shut, shut down, shut up, shutter, stop, stop up, stuff, suffuse, turn off, wind up, wrap up), krevat fëmijësh (cot), kopjoj (calk, copy, duplicate, facsimile, imitate, pattern, replicate, transcribe, transfer, write out), kopje (carbon, carbon copy, copy, ditto, double, duplicate, duplication, facsimile, manifold, model, picture, replica, replication, reproduction, take off, tally), koçek (barn), katua (cot, cow-house), grazhd (crib for cattle, feed-trough, horse box, manger, rake for cattle, stall), dhomëz (chamber, compartment, cubbyhole, cubicle, cuddy), armaturë (armature, armory, armoury, fittings, framework, lagging, mounting). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كوخ (cabin, camp, chalet, cot, cottage, hut, hutch, lodge, shack, shanty, shebang, shed), ‏معلف (manger, trough), ‏غرفة صغيرة (cubby), ‏غش في إمتحان, ‏حبس (confine, confinement, constraint, custody, duress, gaol, imprison, imprisonment, jail, lockup, mewl, occlude, prison, sequester, sequestration, shut), ‏سلة (basket, scuttle, skip, wire), ‏سرير طفل (cot, cradle), ‏سرق (convey, crook, filch, hook, lift, misappropriate, mooch, nick, nobble, pick, pinch, plunder, purloin, rip off, rob, sack, sneak, steal, swipe, thieve, walk off with), ‏زريبة (corral, cote, cowshed, fold, house, pen, pound, shed, stable, yard), ‏الغش في الامتحانات, ‏إنتحل (arrogate, plagiarize). (various references)

Basque

bideohe (berth). (various references)

Bulgarian 

крада на дребно (hook, sneak), дребна кражба (petty larceny), плагиат (pirate, plagiarism), плагиатствувам (plagiarize), преписвам (copy, transcribe, write out), публичен дом (bordello, house, red light, sporting house, whorehouse), буквален превод (key, metaphrase), затварям натясно, нещо откраднато, детско креватче (cot), колиба (bothy, cabin, cot, hovel, hut, kennel, shack, shanty, wickiup), ясла (manger, rack), къща за ограбване, къщурка, хапя яслата, хамбар (barn, bin, garner, granary, store-house), хранилка (feeding trough, rack), слагам ясли, сандък (bin, box, case, chest, coffer, hutch, packing case), стаичка (cell), ключ (cab, clef, key, keystone, keyword, peg, signature, switch). (various references)

Chinese 

小儿床. (various references)

Czech

vecpat (crush, jam, tuck), tahák (draw), opisovat (copy), jeslièky (christmas crib, creche), jesle (creche, day nursery, infant school), dìtská postýlka (cot), betlém (bethlehem, creche). (various references)

Danish

trug (basin, chest, feed plan, feeder, guttering, manger, trough), saenkekasse (caisson, crib work), majskrybbe (corn crib, wire cob rack), krybedæmning (crib dam), krybbe (corn crib, feed plan, feeder, manger, trough, wire cob rack), julekrybbe (Nativity scene), Jackson's crib, fodrer (feed plan, feeder, manger, trough), flåde af sammenbundne stammer (cribbing). (various references)

Dutch

spieken. (various references)

Esperanto

fikopii, ŝtelrigardi. (various references)

Farsi 

کش رفتن یادزدیدن , تختخواب بچه , اخور (Bin, Cub, Manger, Stall), دله دزدی (Cabbage), دزدی ادبی (Plagiarism). (various references)

Finnish

lautta (ferry, raft), laatikkorunkoinen täytepato (crib dam), kehälautta (cribbing). (various references)

French

crochet de Jackson, cage, copiage, copier, crèche (creche), crib (crib work), crib � maïs (corn crib), cribwork (crib work), petite chambre, auge, bûcher (cram), bâtiment, brelle (cribbing), traverse (cross-beam, crosses, crossing, crossing point, cross-piece), sommier (cross-beam), encoffrement (crib dam), prise d'eau, mangeoire, parure, étable, panier (cradle), voler (crook), enfermer, lit de bébé, lit d'enfant (cradle), silo-crib pour maïs (corn crib). (various references)

German

Krippe (creche, daynursery, haybox, hayrack, manger). (various references)

Greek 

φάτνη (manger, rack, stall). (various references)

Hebrew 

מטת יל�", מטת ת� וק (cot), עריס�" (cradle), ערש (bed, couch, cradle), אבוס (fattened, feeding trough, manger, stall, stalled, stuffed). (various references)

Hungarian

puska (cheat sheet, crib notes, cribs, gun, hand-gun, musket, popper, rifle), kiságy (cot). (various references)

Indonesian

tempat tidur bayi. (various references)

Italian

presepio (Nativity scene). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

飼い葉桶 (manger), ベニヤ板 (baby, baby bed, baby boom, baby doll, baby face, baby oil, baby powder, baby-sitter, basinette, behemoth, benefit, play pen, plywood, stroller, unlicensed child care, Venetian blind, Venetian glass). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ベ�"ーベッド (baby bed, basinette), かいばおけ (manger). (various references)

Manx

manjoor (manger), jannoo coip jeh (copy, duplicate, reproduce), cratch (manger, rack). (various references)

Occitan

liechòta (berth). (various references)

Pig Latin

ibcray.(various references)

Portuguese

cabana (bothy, cabana, cabin, cot, cottage, hangar, hovel, hut, hutch, lodge, shack, shanty, shebang, shed), canastro (corn crib, wire cob rack), choupana (barrack, bothy, cabin, cot, hole, hovel, hut, lodge, shack, shanty, shed), cola (glue, gum, kola, size), colar (affix, attach, beads, bind, bung, chain, collar, collate, glue, gum, necklace, paste, stick), copiar (copy, imitate, overwrite, pattern, transcribe), gancho de Jackson, dique flutuante de toros (cribbing), espigueiro (corn crib, wire cob rack), berço (cot, cradle), gamela (bin, tray, trough), travessa de testeiro (cradle, stillage), jangada (float, raft), manjedoura (cratch, hack, manger), parte de jangada (cribbing), plagiar (lift, pirate, plagiarize), presépio (Nativity scene), represa de caixa (crib dam), silo (bin, garner, silo), surrupiar (cabbage, scrounge, steal), estábulo (stable, stall, sty). (various references)

Romanian

copia (copy, copy down, counterfeit, forge, imitate, plagiarize, print, reproduce, transcribe), cârciumã (ale-house, bar, drinking house, gin-shop, grogshop, ordinary, peg house, porter house, pot house, pub, public house, saloon, taproom, tavern), camerã micã, chichineaţã (hovel, sty), odãiţã (snuggery), iesle (manger), fura (abstract, defalcate, embezzle, filch, hook, kidnap, knock off, lift, make away with, nibble, nim, pick pockets, pilfer, pill, pinch, plagiarize, poach, prig, purloin, Raven, reave, snake, steal, thieve), vârî (Bob, creep, dab, dig, dip, drive, duck, engraft in, immerse, impress, introduce, involve, jab, Lodge, pick, poke, pull up, put in, stab, stick, Stow, stuff, thrust, tuck), pat de copil (cot), închide (bar, block, bolt, cage, chest, clap up, clasp, clench, close, closet, comprise, confine, contain, darken, embay, enclose, fasten, furl, girdle, half-shut, heal, hem, impound, imprison, include, lock, occlude, seal, shut, shut down, shut in, shut the works down, stopper), plagia (lift, pirate, plagiarize), plagiat (piracy, plagiarism), bombã (bomb, bombshell, dive, egg, jerry shop, pot house, shell), bojdeucã (hovel, kennel), şterge (abrade, annex, annihilate, annul, blot out, bunk, cancel, clean, cop, decamp, deface, delete, dim, do a bunk, dry, dull, efface, erase, expunge, filch, guy, make away, make off, mop, obliterate, pack off, pack one's traps, pop off, quit, raze, remove, scratch, shrink away, strike out, sweep, vanish, wipe), înghesui (accumulate, amass, bay, beat a path, corner, cram, crowd, heap, jam, jostle, nip, pack, pile up, squeeze, stack, stuff), fiţuicã (handbill, pony). (various references)

Russian 

ясли (creche, manger, nursery), списать (copy), хижина (cabin, humpy, hut, shack, wickiup), шпаргалка (trot), красть (abstract, lift, pilfer, purloin, rustle, snitch, steal, swipe), колыбель (cradle, nurse), верша для ловли лососей, запирать (bar, embay, fasten, lock, lock in, mew up, pawl, pen, shut in, shut up), ларь (coffer, pocket), подстрочник, плагиат (plagiarism, plagiary), детская кроватка (cot). (various references)

Scottish

prasach (a manger). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

prepisivati, korpa (basket, hamper, pannier), koš (basket, cage, crosstrees), jasle (creche, manger), dečji krevetac. (various references)

Spanish

cuna (bassinet, cot, cradle, place of birth), cuidar a un niño, crib (crib work), cama pequeña, presa de gaviones (crib dam), plagiar (plagiarize), pesebre (manger, trough), nacimiento (birth, calve, dawn, detonation, formation, nativity, rise, rising, source), jaulón de tela metálica para maíz (corn crib, wire cob rack), hurtar (encroach on, heist, purloin, rob, rustle, steal, thieve), gancho de Jackson (Jackson clasp), bandeja (plate, salver, server, tray), balsa (balsa, balsa wood, ferry, ferryboat, float, pond, raft, rettery, swamp), artesa (Buddle, trough). (various references)

Swedish

krubba (feed, manger, scrub), bås (booth, box, cubicle, stall). (various references)

Turkish

yemlik (manger, rack), kulübe (booth, box, cabin, Cote, cottage, hovel, hut, hutch, kiosk, kiosque, Lodge, shack, shanty, shed), kopya çekmek (copy), kopya (carbon copy, copy, cribbing, ditto, double, duplicate, duplication, exemplar, facsimile, image, likeness, manifold, printing out, repetition, replica, replication, repro, spit, tracing, transcript, transcription, trot), ev (accommodation unit, domestic, domicil, domicile, dwelling, dwelling house, dwelling place, habitation, hangout, home, house, household, housing, inhabitation, place, residence, rooms, settlement), bebek yatağı, beşik (bassinet, cradle), ahırı yemlikle donatmak, ahıra tıkmak, ahır (barn, byre, cowhouse, cowshed, shed, stable, stabling, stall), aşırmak (abstract, bag, cop, filch, help oneself to, hoist, hook, make off with, mooch, pass over, pilfer, prig, purloin, scrounge, snaffle, snitch, steal, walk off with, whip), aşırma (passing over, petty larceny, picking, picking and stealing, theft), çalmak (abstract, adopt, bag, beat, beat out, blow, chime, cop, defalcate, filch, finger, grind, grind out, heist, hijack, hoist, hook, hoot, incline, jangle, jingle, knelt, knock, knock off, lift, make off with, mooch, nobble, peal, pilfer, pinch, play, plunder, rap, render, ring, rustle, scrounge, sneak, snitch, sound, steal, strike, swipe, tend, thieve, toll, twang, verge, verge into, verge on, walk away with, walk off with, whip). (various references)

Turkmen 

sallanзak (swing). (various references)

Ukrainian

стійло (bay, boose, box, stall), хатина (barrack, cabin, hut, shanty), чинити плагіат, шпаргалка (cab, cabbage, pony), годівниця (nourice, rack, wet nurse), зачиняти (close, closet, shut), замикати (closet, fasten, lock up, pen, shut in, sneck), припасовувати годівницю, плагіат (cabbage, plagiarism, rip off), дитяче ліжко (cot). (various references)

Vietnamese 

nh� nhỏ. (various references)

Welsh

preseb (stall). (various references)

praesepe, praesepia, praesepibus, praesepio. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "crib": cribbage, cribbages, cribbed, cribber, cribbers, cribbing, cribbings, cribbled, cribriform, cribrous, cribs, cribwork, cribworks. (additional references)

Words ending with "crib": corncrib. (additional references)

Words containing "crib": ascribable, ascribe, ascribed, ascribes, ascribing, circumscribe, circumscribed, circumscribes, circumscribing, conscribe, conscribed, conscribes, conscribing, corncribs, describable, describe, described, describer, describers, describes, describing, indescribable, indescribableness, indescribablenesses, indescribably, inscribe, inscribed, inscriber, inscribers, inscribes, inscribing, misdescribe, misdescribed, misdescribes, misdescribing, mistranscribe, mistranscribed, mistranscribes, mistranscribing, overprescribe, overprescribed, overprescribes, overprescribing, oversubscribe, oversubscribed, oversubscribes, oversubscribing, prescribe, prescribed, prescriber, prescribers. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Crib" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: arib, Caiuby, Carbi, caribb, Ceibe, chrib, cib, Cibc, Cibd, clib, cnib, crabb, Craib, creb, crebo, cri, cria, cribb, cribe, cribu, crid, crie, crig, Crii, Crik, cril, crim, Crin, crio, crip, crir, cris, crit, criv, criw, crix, criz, crob, crobe, crub, Cruibh, Cryiib, cuib, cxiv, erib, frib, irib, krab, Kreb, krib, krob, Mrbi, orib, prib, scrib, shrib, srib, urib, wrib. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: rib.

-2 letters: bi.

+1 letter: baric, birch, boric, brick, cribs, rabic.

+2 letters: arabic, bardic, bicarb, bicker, bicorn, bicron, bricks, bricky, bromic, brucin, caribe, corbie, fabric, lubric, rubric, scribe, sorbic, terbic.

+3 letters: acerbic, aerobic, arabica, ascribe, baldric, barytic, bawdric, becrime, bicarbs, bickers, bicolor, bicorne, bicrons, birched, birchen, birches, boracic, boronic, brachia, bracing, breccia, bricked, brickle, bricole, brioche, brocoli, bronchi, brucine, brucins, butyric, caliber, calibre, cambric, carabid, carabin, carbide, carbine, caribes, caribou, catbird, ciboria, climber, cobbier, corbeil, corbies, corbina, cowbird, cribbed, cribber, curbing, fabrics, iceberg, microbe, pibroch, rhombic, robotic, rubidic, rubrics, scribal, scribed, scriber, scribes, strobic, suberic, terebic, zebraic.