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sand crabs

sand crabs is the plural of sand crab.

Meaning of sand crab

Noun

sand crab (plural sand crabs)

  1. A crab of the Hippoidea superfamily of decapod crustaceans, living in sandy habitats.
    • She ran down the ribs of sand, sending the sand-crabs scurrying to their holes.1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 372
    Synonyms:
    mole crab, sand bug
  2. (US, slang) A civilian.

Questions about sand crabs

What is sand crabs the plural of?
Sand crabs is the plural of sand crab.

Words near sand crabs in the dictionary

  1. sand clocks
  2. sand cock
  3. sand cocks
  4. sand cookie
  5. sand crab
  6. sand crabs
  7. sand crack
  8. sand cracks
  9. sand cress
  10. sand cricket
  11. sand crickets

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