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How to pronounce “crab”

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Learning goal: Practice the English pronunciation of crab with real speech in context.
Available examples: 8 YouTube examples
Real speech example: Spineless: Portraits of Marine InvertebratesIt's called a white phantom crab,
Definition summary: Any crustacean of the infraorder Brachyura, having five pairs of legs, the foremost of which are in the form of claws, and a carapace.

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How to pronounce crab

Spineless: Portraits of Marine Invertebrates

It's called a white phantom crab,

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Meaning

[Noun]
Any crustacean of the infraorder Brachyura, having five pairs of legs, the foremost of which are in the form of claws, and a carapace.
(uncountable) The meat of this crustacean, served as food; crabmeat.
Various other animals that resemble true crabs:
A bad-tempered person.
(in plural crabs, informal) An infestation of pubic lice (Pthirus pubis).
(uncountable, aviation) The angle by which an aircraft's nose is pointed upwind of its groundtrack to compensate for crosswinds during an approach to landing; its crab angle.
(poker slang) A playing card with the rank of three.
(rowing) A position in rowing where the oar is pushed under the rigger by the force of the water.
A defect in an outwardly normal object that may render it inconvenient and troublesome to use.
(dated) An unsold book that is returned to the publisher.
[Verb]
(intransitive) To fish for crabs.
(transitive, US, slang) To ruin.
(intransitive) To complain.
(transitive) To complain about.
(intransitive) To drift or move sideways or to leeward (by analogy with the movement of a crab).
To move in a manner that involves keeping low and clinging to surfaces.
(transitive, film, television) To move (a camera) sideways.
(transitive, aviation) To navigate (an aircraft, e.g. a glider) sideways against an air current in order to maintain a straight-line course.
(obsolete, World War I) To fly slightly off the straight-line course towards an enemy aircraft, as the machine guns on early aircraft did not allow firing through the propeller disk.
(rare) To back out of something.

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How to pronounce “crab”

Pronunciation guide for crab

How to pronounce crab

Example Sentences

It's called a white phantom crab,

He's going to be demoing two recipes for us, the crab

DG: You can see, here's a crab that lives down there.

Crain was a crab fisherman, and he would go out into Tampa Bay

There's a really great parasitic barnacle that attacks crabs.

The three words are pine, crab and sauce, the fourth word in this case is apple; pineapple,

We have a giant crab cake because Lish

and you hear about this lady who makes a crab omelet.

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