Definitions of crab:
- noun: a stroke of the oar that either misses the water or digs too deeply
Example: "He caught a crab and lost the race"
- noun: decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers
- noun: the edible flesh of any of various crabs
- noun: a quarrelsome grouch
- noun: (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Cancer
- noun: infests the pubic region of the human body
- noun: the fourth sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about June 21 to July 22
- verb: fish for crab
- verb: scurry sideways like a crab
- verb: direct (an aircraft) into a crosswind
- verb: complain