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cray

/kɹæɪ/

cray noun: a crayfish or lobster.

Noun

cray (plural crays)

  1. A crayfish or lobster.
    • The third stage occurs when the crays moult into miniature adults. They are now completely independent of the mother and leave her permanently after a week or so.2012, Robert B. McCormack, A Guide to Australia's Spiny Freshwater Crayfish, page 47

Adjective

cray (comparative more cray, superlative most cray)

  1. (slang) Crazy.
    • That small of a fine for that kind of blatant disregard is cray.2010 November 23, Cory Giger, “NFL commish slaps Steelers in face with weak punishment of Seymour”, in The Altoona Mirror, Altoona, Pennsylvania
    • Before his set, RWD somehow found time to back a quick vodka shot in the Ice Bar downstairs - yes we're aware an ice bar in the desert is cray.2012 September, “Sharm x Savoy + Kiss = Happy RWD”, in Fazer, number 127, page 80

Proper noun capitalized: Cray

Cray (countable and uncountable, plural Crays)

  1. A surname.
  2. A short river in Greater London which flows into the River Darent.
  3. A community (civil parish) in southern Powys, Wales.

cray meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Bengali and Telugu

cray in Hindi

क्रे

cray in Marathi

क्रे

cray in Bengali

ক্রে

cray in Telugu

క్రే
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cray in Malayalam
ക്രെയ്
cray in Kannada
ಕ್ರೇ
cray in Punjabi
ਕ੍ਰੇ
cray in Gujarati
ક્રે
cray in Odia
କ୍ରେ
cray in Nepali
क्रे

Forms of cray

Noun
pluralcrays
Adjective
comparativemore cray
superlativemost cray
Proper noun
pluralCrays

Origin of cray

Clipping of crayfish.

Clipping of crazy, with -y to clarify pronunciation. Compare vacay (“vacation”).

* As an Irish surname, from ó Craobhaigh, a byname from craobhach (“branched”). Compare Creevy. * As an English surname, from the River Cray, of Celtic origin, from Proto-Celtic *garwos (“rough”). * As a German surname, Americanized from Krey, Kray. * As a Dutch surname, variant of Kraai, from kraai (“crow”).

Words formed from cray

Phrases with cray

Words that rhyme with cray

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Questions about cray

What does cray mean?
Cray means a crayfish or lobster.
What is cray in Hindi?
Cray in Hindi is क्रे. See Cray meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is cray?
Cray can be a noun, an adjective or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce cray?
Cray is pronounced /kɹæɪ/.
What is the plural of cray?
The plural of cray is crays.

Words near cray in the dictionary

  1. crawthumper
  2. crawthumpers
  3. crawthumping
  4. Craxi
  5. Craxism
  6. cray
  7. cray cray
  8. cray-cray
  9. cray-dar
  10. craybait
  11. crayboat

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cray (page history and authors); Cray (page history and authors); cray (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cray (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cray (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cray (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cray (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cray (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cray (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cray (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cray (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cray (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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