crabbed
/kษนรฆbd/IPA: /K R AE1 B D/
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To fish for crabs.
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To ruin.
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To complain.
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To drift or move sideways or to leeward (by analogy with the movement of a crab).
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To navigate (an aircraft, e.g. a glider) sideways against an air current in order to maintain a straight-line course.
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To move (a camera) sideways.
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(World War I), to fly slightly off the straight-line course towards an enemy aircraft, as the machine guns on early aircraft did not allow firing through the propeller disk.
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To back out of something.
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(obsolete) To irritate, make surly or sour
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To be ill-tempered; to complain or find fault.
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(British dialect) To cudgel or beat, as with a crabstick
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Bad-tempered or cantankerous.
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Cramped, bent.
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(of handwriting) Crowded together and difficult to read.
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Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/crab, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/crabbed