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cray

noun
/kɹæɪ/

Etymology

* As an Irish surname, from ó Craobhaigh, a byname from craobhach (“branched”). Compare Creevy. * As an English surname, from the River Cray, of Celtic origin, from Proto-Celtic *garwos (“rough”). * As a German surname, Americanized from Krey, Kray. * As a Dutch surname, variant of Kraai, from kraai (“crow”).

  1. derived from *garwos✻ — “rough”

Definitions

  1. A crayfish or lobster.

    • The third stage occurs when the crays moult into miniature adults. They are now completely independent of the mother and leave her permanently after a week or so.

  2. Crazy.

    • That small of a fine for that kind of blatant disregard is cray.
    • Before his set, RWD somehow found time to back a quick vodka shot in the Ice Bar downstairs - yes we're aware an ice bar in the desert is cray.
    • Also, make sure you look both ways first, because the traffic is cray.

  3. A surname.

  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. A short river in Greater London which flows into the River Darent.

    2. A community (civil parish) in southern Powys, Wales.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for cray. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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