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crabbers

crabbers is the plural of crabber.

Meaning of crabber

Noun (1)

crabber (plural crabbers)

  1. A person who catches crabs.
    • Many shrimpers complain that the crabbers place their traps too close together and that they can't go between the traps without snagging their nets.1989, National Fisherman, volumes 70-71, page 26
  2. A boat used for catching crabs.
    • In the bright haze of morning they came into Hort Harbor, where a hundred craft were moored or setting forth: fishermen's boats, crabbers, trawlers, trading-ships, two galleys of twenty oars […]1972, Ursula K. Le Guin, The Farthest Shore

Noun (2)

crabber (plural crabbers)

  1. A person who finds fault or criticizes.
    • There were one or two crabbers, of course—people who wanted his job—but no one paid any attention to the likes of them.1936, Josephine Tey, A Shilling for Candles, New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, published 1998, →ISBN, page 103

Questions about crabbers

What is crabbers the plural of?
Crabbers is the plural of crabber.

Words near crabbers in the dictionary

  1. crabbedly
  2. crabbedness
  3. crabbednesses
  4. crabber
  5. crabberies
  6. crabbers
  7. crabbery
  8. Crabbes
  9. Crabbes Creek
  10. crabbier
  11. crabbiest

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