crip
/kɹɪp/
crip noun: a cripple.
Noun (1)
crip (plural crips)
- A cripple.
- Alan nodded. "Buster. He's parked in the crip space again. I told him last time I was through warning him about it."1991, Stephen King, Needful Things
- A person with a disability.
Verb
crip (third-person singular simple present crips, present participle cripping, simple past and past participle cripped)
- To do a Crip Walk.
- To apply a disability justice perspective to something.
- In performance, the artists under discussion sometimes use queering and cripping against one another; they “queer the crip” and “crip the queer.” That is, queering critiques and expands notions of what it means to be crippled, and cripping critiques and expands notions of what it means to be queer.2003, Carrie Sandahl, “Queering the Crip of Cripping the Queer? Intersections of Queer and Crip Identities in Solo Autobiographical Performance”, in QLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, volume...
- In approaching the ISA negatively, we can begin to crip the ways in which it conceptualizes disability, gesturing towards the nonidentical that is concealed through identity and opening up space for the recognition of differences that this putatively universal symbol obfuscates.2013, Kelly Fritsch, “On the Negative Possibility of Suffering: Adorno, Feminist Philosophy, and the Transfigured Crip To Come”, in Disability Studies Quarterly, volume 33, number 4
Noun (2) capitalized: Crip
Crip (plural Crips)
- A member of Crips, a violent Los Angeles criminal gang who typically wear blue and have an intense and bitter rivalry with the Bloods.
- My union with the neighborhood kids teaches me Bloods don't say or write words starting with c's. This is how Bloods disrespect Crips. They replace all c's with k's or b's and cross out all remaining c's in the word.2009, DaShaun "Jiwe" Morris, War of the Bloods in My Veins
Forms of crip
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | crips |
| plural | Crips |
| alternative Internet | ♿ |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | crips |
| present participle | cripping |
| past participle | cripped |
| past | cripped |
Origin of crip
Clipping of cripple.
Originally from crib, reflecting the young age of most gang members; later influenced by cripple, referring to the canes they used to carry.
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Questions about crip
- What does crip mean?
- Crip means a cripple.
- What part of speech is crip?
- Crip can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce crip?
- Crip is pronounced /kɹɪp/.
- What is the plural of crip?
- The plural of crip is crips.
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