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crips

crips is the plural of crip.

Meaning of crip

Noun

crip (plural crips)

  1. (offensive) 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
  2. (reclaimed, generally self-referential) A person with a disability.

See all 5 meanings of crip

Noun capitalized: Crips

Crips

  1. (plural) plural of Crip.

Proper noun capitalized: Crips

Crips

  1. A black street gang known for wearing blue and having an intense rivalry with the Bloods.

Phrases with crips

Questions about crips

What does crips mean?
Crips means a black street gang known for wearing blue and having an intense rivalry with the Bloods.
What is crips the plural of?
Crips is the plural of crip.
What part of speech is crips?
Crips can be a noun or a proper noun.

Words near crips in the dictionary

  1. Cripps
  2. Cripps question
  3. crippunk
  4. cripqueer
  5. cripqueers
  6. crips
  7. Crips out
  8. crips up
  9. cris
  10. cris de coeur
  11. cris de cœur

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Adapted from Wiktionary: crips (page history and authors); Crips (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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