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crabs

[ US /ˈkɹæbz/ ]
[ UK /kɹˈæbz/ ]
NOUN
  1. infestation of the pubic hair by crab lice

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  • But others of the Muscovite band were fond of congregating at this spot and hour for their lustral summer rites -- white-skinned lads and lasses, matrons and reverent elders, all in a state of Adamitic nudity, splashing about the water of this sunny cover, devouring raw fish and crabs after the manner of the fabled Ichthyophagi, laughing, kissing, saying nice things about God, and combing out each other's long tow-coloured hair. South Wind
  • Spider crabs stalked the seabed; wrasse, blennies, shannies and rockling darted over the reefs, and pollack wheeled overhead.
  • You can have sea bass, lobster, herring, turbot, sturgeon cusks, haddock, mullet, eels, crabs, oysters and mussels.
  • We walked along the beach collecting small crabs in a bucket.
  • There were mussels and abalones and clams and rock-oysters, and great ocean-crabs that were thrown upon the beaches in stormy weather. CHAPTER XVIII
  • He was feeding fish to crabs to fatten them and getting a good economic return from selling the crabs. Mary Robinson: Climate Change -- A Glimpse of the Future
  • This is why a unionized workforce is a good thing: Disney World's costumed characters have won the right to wear their own underwear to work, after years of getting crabs and scabies from the Disney-provided articles. Boing Boing: June 10, 2001 - June 16, 2001 Archives
  • Young fish, young crabs and molting crabs have lost shelter and refuge from their predators.
  • They feed on small bony fishes, snails, worms, shrimps, clams, abalone, and crabs.
  • Land crabs, river crayfish, opossum, agouti, and fish are caught where available.
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