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crabbed
crabbed
See {crab}

crab
v 1: direct (an aircraft) into a crosswind
2: scurry sideways like a crab
3: fish for crab
4: complain; "What was he hollering about?" [syn: {gripe}, {grouse},
{beef}, {squawk}, {bellyache}, {holler}]
[also: {crabbing}, {crabbed}]

crab
n 1: decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened
carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax
and pincers
2: a quarrelsome grouch [syn: {crabby person}]
3: (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Cancer
[syn: {Cancer}]
4: the fourth sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from
about June 21 to July 22 [syn: {Cancer}, {Cancer the Crab}]
5: the edible flesh of any of various crabs [syn: {crabmeat}]
6: infests the pubic region of the human body [syn: {crab louse},
{pubic louse}, {Phthirius pubis}]
7: a stroke of the oar that either misses the water or digs too
deeply; "he caught a crab and lost the race"
[also: {crabbing}, {crabbed}]

crabbed
adj : perversely irritable [syn: {crabby}, {cross}, {fussy}, {grouchy},
{grumpy}, {bad-tempered}, {ill-tempered}]

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