crib
47 synonyms found
- baby bed
- bach
- bawdy house
- bawdyhouse
- betting house
- betting parlor
- bin
- booth
- card game
- cards
- casket
- cellule
- coffin
- encage
- enclosed space
- entomb
- gambling den
- gambling hall
- gambling hell
- gaming house
- garner
- gatehouse
- grain bin
- grain elevator
- granary
- hold in custody
- hold in restraint
- keep in custody
- keep in detention
- lean-to
- manger
- Nissen hut
- outbuilding
- pavilion
- pen up
- pew
- playing card
- poolroom
- Quonset hut
- rendering
- sentry box
- shanty
- silo
- tollhouse
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- version
- yammer
Definition
(n) :
a baby's bed (British and Australasian cot) with high, often slatted, often moveable sides, suitable for a child who has outgrown a cradle or bassinet; a bed for a child older than a baby
"1848 a day or two afterwards I learned that Miss Temple, on returning to her own room at dawn, had found me laid in the little crib"
(v) :
to place or confine in a crib; to collect one or more passages and/or references for use in a speech, written document or as an aid for some task; to create a crib sheet
"Zeugmatically, she cribbed the baby and then the corn."