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crib
noun- a person’s dwelling; an apartment or house US, 1809
- He had chicks sleeping with cats in nice cribs downtown. — Claude Brown, Manchild in the Promised Land, p. 109, 1965
- Nat wasn’t making but twenty dollars ($20) a night but he told me when I got out I could shack up at his crib for a few weeks while getting my strength back. — Babs Gonzales, I Paid My Dues, p. 25, 1967
- But I’ll tell you what, you meet me over to my crib in about an hour. — Donald Goines, El Dorado Red, p. 78, 1974
- So you hang ‘round your crib a lot, waiting for something to happen. — Edwin Torres, San Francisco, p. 52, 1975
- Next time you bogart your way into a nigger’s crib, an’ get all in his face, make sure you do it on white boy day. — True Romance, 1993
- This is all right. Two minutes from your crib, ten minutes from your work. — Jackie Brown, 1997
- You bring a woman back to your crib for some lovemaking, the song you put on depends on the woman, the type of lovemaking you intend to do, right? — Gone in 60 Seconds, 2000
- a room or shack where a prostitute plies her trade US, 1846
- All of nigger Chicago is lousy with police stations, gambling joints, and whore cribs. — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Mama Black Widow, p. 74, 1969
- a house or shop chosen for a robbery CANADA
- What we gotta do is wait till we got a crib set up, clout a good car for the getaway, then change to the truck a few blocks from the job. — Hugh Garner, The Intruders, p. 106, 1976
- in trucking, the sleeping compartment behind the driver US
- — “Slingo”, The Official CB Slang Dictionary Handbook, p. 18, 1976
- a holiday cottage NEW ZEALAND, 1980
- a prison cell US
- — Charles Shafer, Folk Speech in Texas Prisons, p. 202, 1990
- a gambling establishment UK, 1823
- — The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences, p. 123, May 1950
- a brakevan (caboose) US
- — Ramon Adams, The Language of the Railroader, p. 39, 1977
- a safe US
- — Joseph E. Ragen and Charles Finston, Inside the World’s Toughest Prison, p. 796, 1962
- a receptacle for carrying a meal to work AUSTRALIA, 1941
- As most Australians know the enduring popularity of the dog on the tucker box at Gundagai, a famous sculpture notwithstanding, is not because the dog faithfully sat guarding the tucker box, but because it shat on its master’s “crib.” — Nancy Keesing, Lily on the Dustbin, p. 49, 1982
- a meal taken during the major break at work AUSTRALIA, 1890
- Joe Allingham was telling me about one day they were out mustering and the black lad had forgotten his crib. — Sam Weller, Old Bastards I Have Met, p. 40, 1979
- any form of written aid to cheating in examinations UK, 1900
The original (1841) meaning was specifically “a literal translation illicitly used by students;” the current vaguer sense gained purchase during C20. - cribbage (a card game) UK, 1885
- crack cocaine UK, 1998
- — Mike Haskins, Drugs, p. 281, 2003
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