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crabcake

crabcake is the alternative spelling of crab cake.

Meaning of crab cake

Noun

crab cake (countable and uncountable, plural crab cakes)

  1. A type of fishcake popular in the United States composed of crab meat and various other ingredients such as bread crumbs, milk, mayonnaise, eggs and seasonings.
    • “I have to say, without pause, it was one of the most profound, important days of my life,” Ms. Witherspoon told the Bagger in October at a fancy New York restaurant, between sips of cappuccino and bites of crab cake.2014 December 1, Cara Buckley, “Reese Witherspoon’s Personal ‘Wild’ Audience”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 Dec...

Forms of crabcake

pluralcrabcakes

Questions about crabcake

What is crabcake the alternative spelling of?
Crabcake is the alternative spelling of crab cake.

Words near crabcake in the dictionary

  1. crabbles
  2. Crabbs
  3. crabburger
  4. crabburgers
  5. crabby
  6. crabcake
  7. crabcakes
  8. crabcore
  9. crabeater
  10. crabeater seal
  11. crabeater seals

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Adapted from Wiktionary: crabcake (page history and authors); crab cake (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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