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cripping

cripping is the present participle and gerund of crip.

Meaning of crip

Verb

crip (third-person singular simple present crips, present participle cripping, simple past and past participle cripped)

  1. To do a Crip Walk.
  2. (disability studies) 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...

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Phrases with cripping

Questions about cripping

What is cripping the present participle and gerund of?
Cripping is the present participle and gerund of crip.

Words near cripping in the dictionary

  1. Cripped out
  2. cripped up
  3. Crippen
  4. Crippenesque
  5. Crippens
  6. cripping
  7. Cripping out
  8. cripping up
  9. cripple
  10. Cripple Creek
  11. cripple hole

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cripping (page history and authors); crip (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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