crib
verb/krɪb/
/krɪb/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they crib | /krɪb/ /krɪb/ |
| he / she / it cribs | /krɪbz/ /krɪbz/ |
| past simple cribbed | /krɪbd/ /krɪbd/ |
| past participle cribbed | /krɪbd/ /krɪbd/ |
| -ing form cribbing | /ˈkrɪbɪŋ/ /ˈkrɪbɪŋ/ |
- [intransitive, transitive] crib (something) (from somebody) (old-fashioned) to dishonestly copy work from another student or from a bookTopics Educationc2
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- [intransitive] crib (about something) (British English, old-fashioned or Indian English) to complain about somebody/something in an angry way
- Every time we met up, she would start cribbing.
- Luckily, my parents never cribbed about my failures.
- He spent the rest of the day cribbing that he had been overcharged.
Word OriginOld English (in the sense ‘manger’), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch krib, kribbe and German Krippe.
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