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crablike

adj

Etymology

From crab + -like. In sense “moving sideways”, due to crab’s sideways walk.

  1. inherited from *krabbô✻
  2. inherited from *krabbō✻
  3. inherited from crabba — “crab; crayfish; cancer”
  4. inherited from crabbe
  5. suffixed as crablike — “crab + like”

Definitions

  1. Having some characteristics of a crab

    • It was in this stream, I recalled from newspaper items, that one of the morbid crablike beings had been seen floating after the floods.

  2. Walking or moving sideways

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Derived

crab-like rove beetle

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA