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Rarecribbing
The correct spelling is cribbing.
How to pronounce cribbing
verb
IPA: /ˈkɹɪbɪŋ/
Say it like: Cri-bbi-ng
The correct spelling is cribbing. To place or confine in a crib. For example: "I cribbed the recipe from the Food Network site, but made a few changes of my own."
Usage Examples
“I cribbed the recipe from the Food Network site, but made a few changes of my own.”
“After the Loma Prieta earthquake, they had to put cribbing under portions of San Francisco's Embarcadero Freeway, for fear it would collapse.”
Meanings
verb
- 1.To place or confine in a crib.
- 2.To shut up or confine in a narrow habitation; to cage; to cramp.
- 3.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.
- 4.To plagiarize; to copy; to cheat.
- 5.To install timber supports, as with cribbing.
noun
- 1.The members used to build a (structural) crib, usually of timbers or logs, but also of concrete, steel or even plastic; cribwork.
- 2.As a whole, the heavy structure built to support an existing structure from underneath, as with a mineshaft or when raising a building off its foundation, as for moving to another location,
- 3.The cribbing used to support anything from below or on a side, as with a retaining wall, or to prop up a piece of heavy machinery.
- 4.A self-injurious tendency of certain horses to swallow air while slobbering and biting onto objects in and about their enclosure; cribbing and windsucking are regarded as equine forms of obsessive-compulsive disorder.
- 5.An act of plagiarism.
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