释义 |
crab noun- a contemptible person UK, 1580
- I had to swallow it when the little crab told me that the two and a half single stone I had nicked the previous afternoon was jargoon [fake]. — Charles Raven, Underworld Nights, p. 167, 1956
- in the language of members of the Bloods youth gang, a member of the Crips youth gang US
- “We keep Crabs out of our ‘hood,” he said, referring to area Crip gang members. — Los Angeles Times, p. 6 (Metro), 8 November 1987
- “Fuck you, Crabs!” someone in the car yelled – an increasingly fam-iliar war cry. — Bob Sipchen, Baby Insane and the Buddha, p. 110, 1993
- “Yeah, you, you little crab-ass punk!” (Crab is a disrespectful term used by Bloods against Crips – defacing the enemy.) — Sanyika Shakur, Monster, p. 22, 1993
- — Bill Valentine, Gang Intelligence Manual, p. 75, 1995
- “There’s crabs in the ‘hood,” she said, using the derogatory slang for “Crips,” a rival gang. — Omaha World-Herald, p. 1A, 18 September 2002
- a member of the Royal Air Force UK
- “It’s OK, it’s only the Crabs,” said a man with a pair of high-powered binoculars. — Robert McGowan and Jeremy Hands, Don’t Cry for Me, Sergeant-Major, p. 80, 1983
- — Nigel Foster, The Making of a Royal Marine Commando, 1987
- a first-year college student US
- — Marcus Hanna Boulware, Jive and Slang of Students in Negro Colleges, 1947
- the vulva BAHAMAS
Sometimes expanded to “crabby.” - — John A. Holm, Dictionary of Bahamian English, p. 52, 1982
- in the television and film industries, a device used to
support a tripod on a slippery or uneven surface UK - — Oswald Skilbeck, ABC of Film and TV Working Terms, p. 28, 1960
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