Usually means: Bed for a small baby.
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  1. crib: Merriam-Webster.com
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  3. crib: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
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  7. crib: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. crib: Wiktionary
  9. crib: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. crib: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
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  13. crib: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. crib: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Crib (cryptanalysis), Crib (disambiguation), Crib: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Crib: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. crib: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. crib: Rhymezone
  19. Crib: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. crib: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Crib, Crib, Crib: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. crib: Free Dictionary
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  1. Crib (disambiguation), crib: Legal dictionary
  2. Crib (disambiguation), crib: Financial dictionary

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  1. Crib (disambiguation), crib: Medical dictionary

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  4. crib: Idioms
  5. crib: Wordcraft Dictionary

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  1. Crib: Catholic Encyclopedia

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  1. crib, crib, crib, crib, crib, crib, crib, crib, crib, crib, crib, crib: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. crib: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
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  4. Crib: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  5. THE CRIB: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. CRIB: GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, CARTOGRAPHY, AND REMOTE SENSING
  2. Glossary of Coal Mining Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See cribbed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (US) A baby’s bed with high, often slatted, often moveable sides, suitable for a child who has outgrown a cradle or bassinet.
noun:  (British) A bed for a child older than a baby.
noun:  (nautical) A small sleeping berth in a packet ship or other small vessel
noun:  A wicker basket.
noun:  A manger, a feeding trough for animals elevated off the earth or floor, especially one for fodder such as hay.
noun:  The baby Jesus and the manger in a creche or nativity scene, consisting of statues of Mary, Joseph and various other characters such as the magi.
noun:  A bin for drying or storing grain, as with a corn crib.
noun:  A small room or covered structure, especially one of rough construction, used for storage or penning animals.
noun:  A confined space, as with a cage or office-cubicle
noun:  (obsolete) A job, a position; (British) an appointment.
noun:  A hovel, a roughly constructed building best suited to the shelter of animals but used for human habitation.
noun:  A boxy structure traditionally built of heavy wooden timbers, to support an existing structure from below, as with a mineshaft or a building being raised off its foundation in preparation for being moved; see cribbing.
noun:  (usually in the plural) A collection of quotes or references for use in speaking, for assembling a written document, or as an aid to a project of some sort; a crib sheet.
noun:  (obsolete) A minor theft, extortion or embezzlement, with or without criminal intent.
noun:  (cribbage) The card game cribbage.
noun:  (cribbage) The cards discarded by players and used by the dealer.
noun:  (cryptography) A known piece of information corresponding to a section of encrypted text, that is then used to work out the remaining sections.
noun:  (southern New Zealand) A small holiday home, often near a beach and of simple construction.
noun:  (now chiefly Australia, New Zealand) A snack or packed lunch, especially as taken to work to eat during a break.
noun:  (Canada) A small raft made of timber.
noun:  (UK, obsolete, thieves' cant) The stomach.
noun:  A literal translation, usually of a work originally in Latin or Ancient Greek.
noun:  (slang) A cheat sheet or past test used by students; crib sheet.
noun:  (slang, sometimes African-American Vernacular) One’s residence, house or dwelling place, or usual place of resort.
verb:  (transitive) To place or confine in a crib.
verb:  To shut up or confine in a narrow habitation; to cage; to cramp.
verb:  (transitive) To collect one or more passages and/or references for use in a speech, written document or as an aid for some task; to create a crib sheet.
verb:  (transitive, informal) To plagiarize; to copy; to cheat.
verb:  (intransitive) To install timber supports, as with cribbing.
verb:  (transitive, archaic) To steal or embezzle.
verb:  (India) To complain, to grumble
verb:  To crowd together, or to be confined, as if in a crib or in narrow accommodations.
verb:  (intransitive, of a horse) To seize the manger or other solid object with the teeth and draw in wind.

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