How to pronounce “crib”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• (US) A baby’s bed with high, often slatted, often moveable sides, suitable for a child who has outgrown a cradle or bassinet.
• (British) A bed for a child older than a baby.
• (nautical) A small sleeping berth in a packet or other small vessel.
• A wicker basket.
• A manger, a feeding trough for animals elevated off the earth or floor, especially one for fodder such as hay.
• The baby Jesus and the manger in a creche or nativity scene, consisting of statues of Mary, Joseph and various other characters such as the magi.
• A bin for drying or storing grain, as with a corn crib.
• A small room or covered structure, especially one of rough construction, used for storage or penning animals.
• A confined space, as with a cage or office-cubicle
• (obsolete) A job, a position; (British) an appointment.
• A hovel, a roughly constructed building best suited to the shelter of animals but used for human habitation.
• A boxy structure traditionally built of heavy wooden timbers, to support an existing structure from below, as with a mineshaft or a building being raised off its foundation in preparation for being moved; see cribbing.
• (usually in the plural) A collection of quotes or references for use in speaking, for assembling a written document, or as an aid to a project of some sort; a crib sheet.
• (obsolete) A minor theft, extortion or embezzlement, with or without criminal intent.
• (cribbage) The card game cribbage.
• (cribbage) The cards discarded by players and used by the dealer.
• (cryptography) A known piece of information corresponding to a section of encrypted text, that is then used to work out the remaining sections.
• (southern New Zealand) A small holiday home, often near a beach and of simple construction.
• (now chiefly Australia, New Zealand) A snack or packed lunch, especially as taken to work to eat during a break.
• (Canada) A small raft made of timber.
• (UK, obsolete, thieves' cant) The stomach.
• A literal translation, usually of a work originally in Latin or Ancient Greek.
• (slang) A cheat sheet or past test used by students; crib sheet.
• (slang, sometimes African-American Vernacular) One’s residence, house or dwelling place, or usual place of resort.
• [Verb]
• (transitive) To place or confine in a crib.
• To shut up or confine in a narrow habitation; to cage; to cramp.
• (transitive) To collect one or more passages and/or references for use in a speech, written document or as an aid for some task; to create a crib sheet.
• (transitive, informal) To plagiarize; to copy; to cheat.
• (intransitive) To install timber supports, as with cribbing.
• (transitive, archaic) To steal or embezzle.
• (India) To complain, to grumble
• To crowd together, or to be confined, as if in a crib or in narrow accommodations.
• (intransitive, of a horse) To seize the manger or other solid object with the teeth and draw in wind.
• (cryptography) To use a known piece of information corresponding to a section of encrypted text, to work out the remaining sections.

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