See Also: Crisp soft shell crab, crab salad and tandoor smoked spicy salmon mousse(recipes)
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[Sense: 1-3; Origin: Old English crabba]
[Sense: 4; Date: 1800-1900; Origin: crabbed]
[C] a sea animal with a hard shell, five legs on each side, and two large claws
-see also crustacean crustacean
[U] the flesh of this animal that you can cook and eat
::crab meat
::dressed crab (=prepared for eating)
crabs [plural] informal a medical condition in which a type of louse (=insect) is in the hair around sexual organs
[singular] AmE informal someone who becomes annoyed easily about unimportant things