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Definition of crib verb from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

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/
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  1. [intransitive, transitive] crib (something) (from somebody) (old-fashioned) to dishonestly copy work from another student or from a bookTopics Educationc2
  2. [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.
  3. Word OriginOld English (in the sense ‘manger’), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch krib, kribbe and German Krippe.
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