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earn a crust

earn a crust is the alternative form of earn one's crust.

Meaning of earn one's crust

Verb

earn one's crust (third-person singular simple present earns one's crust, present participle earning one's crust, simple past and past participle earned one's crust or earnt one's crust)

  1. (UK, idiomatic) To earn money, to do something as a job.
    • Their substitutes featured two players from League One clubs and Miller, who earns his crust these days with Vancouver Whitecaps.2013 August 14, Daniel Taylor, The Guardian

Forms of earn a crust

third-person singular presentearns a crust
present participleearning a crust
past participleearned a crust
pastearned a crust
past participleearnt a crust
pastearnt a crust

Questions about earn a crust

What is earn a crust the alternative form of?
Earn a crust is the alternative form of earn one's crust.

Words near earn a crust in the dictionary

  1. earmoulds
  2. earmuff
  3. earmuffed
  4. earmuffs
  5. earn
  6. earn a crust
  7. earn a living
  8. earn one's corn
  9. earn one's crust
  10. earn one's keep
  11. earn one's spurs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: earn a crust (page history and authors); earn one's crust (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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