crib
part of speech
noun (crib, cribs); verb (crib, cribs, cribbed, cribbing — informal)
meaning for a pupil
1) (noun, US/Canada) A baby's bed with high barred sides (UK: «cot»). tree →
2) (noun, UK/Ireland/Australia) A model of the stable where Jesus was born, with figures of Mary, Joseph, the baby and animals, set up at Christmas (also «nativity scene»; US «crèche»). tree →
3) (noun) A wooden box or rack that holds food for animals; a manger. tree →
4) (verb, informal) To copy someone else's work and pretend it is yours; to cheat. tree →
5) (noun, informal) A sheet of answers or notes used to cheat (a «crib sheet»), or a quick summary of facts. tree →
6) (noun, slang, US) Someone's house or home: «Welcome to my crib.» tree →
7) (noun) Short for «cribbage», a card game. tree →
8) A crib can also be a small store or bin for holding corn. tree →
sense in the lessons
In family life: the baby sleeps in a crib (US) or cot (UK). In church life: at Christmas many churches and homes set up a crib, and children may take part in the crib service. At school: cribbing (copying) in a test is cheating and is punished. Slang: «crib» for home is used by teenagers and in songs. Phrases: «crib sheet», «crib from», «the Christmas crib», «crib death» (US for cot death).
examples
- The baby is fast asleep in her crib. tree →
- At Christmas we put the crib under the tree with little wooden sheep. tree →
- The children placed baby Jesus in the crib at the crib service. tree →
- The cows ate hay from the crib in the barn. tree →
- Don't crib your answers from Jack — do your own work. tree →
- He was caught with a crib sheet in his pencil case. tree →
- "Come round to my crib after school," said my cousin (slang). tree →
- Grandad taught us to play crib. tree →
- The turkey-cock slept on the beam, and the saddle rested in the empty crib. tree →
note
Regular verb with a doubled B: cribbed, cribbing. UK «cot» = US «crib» for a baby's bed; but in the UK, «crib» is mostly the Christmas nativity scene. Christians believe the baby Jesus was laid in a manger because there was no room at the inn. The slang «crib» (home) is informal — not for school writing.
In the corpora
- Where no oxen are, the crib is clean; but much increase is by the strength of the ox.
- Or will he abide by thy crib?
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «crib» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.