1chiefly North American a child’s bed with barred or latticed sides; a cot:tiptoeing over to the crib, he looked down at the sleeping child
a barred container or rack for animal fodder; a manger.
British a model of the Nativity of Christ, with a manger as a bed:a choir was singing carols by a crib
2 informal a translation of a text for use by students, especially in a surreptitious way:an English crib of Caesar’s Gallic Wars
a thing that has been plagiarized:is the song a crib from Mozart’s ‘Don Giovanni’?
3 informal, chiefly North American a person’s apartment or house:you hook up with a girl and take her back to your crib
4 [mass noun]short for cribbage.he would play crib with zest
[count noun] the cards discarded by the players at cribbage, counting to the dealer.
5 (also cribwork) a heavy timber framework used in foundations for a building or to line a mineshaft.
6Australian/NZ a light meal; a snack:I was carrying my crib in a paper bag
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1British informal copy (another person’s work) illicitly or without acknowledgement:he was doing an exam and didn’t want anybody to crib the answers from him [no object]:he often cribbed from other researchers
archaic steal:a brace of birds and hare, that I cribbed this morning out of a basket of game
2 archaic restrain:he had been so cabined, cribbed, and confined by office
3 [no object]British dated or Indian grumble:those guys have nothing to crib about
