1. A vault, safe, or strong-box. 2. A house of prostitution; one of a row of shuttered booths in brazenly open prostitution districts. 3. One's living quarters; an apartment. 4. A petty thief. "The crib spent half his life in lag (prison)."

- american underworld dictionary - 1950

the place you stay at is a bona fide crib if it fulfills some of the following criteria:

Crib (kr?b), n. [AS. crybb; akin to OS. kribbja, D. krib, kribbe, Dan. krybbe, G. krippe, and perh. to MHG. krebe basket, G, korb, and E. rip a sort of wicker basket.]


A manger or rack; a feeding place for animals.

The steer lion at one crib shall meet. Pope.


A stall for oxen or other cattle.

Where no oxen are, the crib is clean. Prov. xiv. 4.


A small inclosed bedstead or cot for a child.




A hovel; a hut; a cottage.

Why rather, Sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, . . . Than in the perfumed chambers of the great? Shak.

6. Mining





A small raft of timber.



A small theft; anything purloined;; a plagiaris; hence, a translation or key, etc., to aid a student in preparing or reciting his lessons.


The Latin version technically called a crib. Ld. Lytton.

Occasional perusal of the Pagan writers, assisted by a crib. Wilkie Collins.


A miner's luncheon.



11. Card Playing



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Crib, v. t. [imp. & p.p. Cribbed (kr?bd); p.pr. & vb. n. Cribbing.]



If only the vital energy be not cribbed or cramped. I. Taylor.

Now I am cabin'd, cribbed, confined. Shak.




Child, being fond of toys, cribbed the necklace. Dickens.


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Crib, v. i.




Who sought to make . . . bishops to crib in a Presbyterian trundle bed. Gauden.


To make notes for dishonest use in recitation or examination.

[College Cant]




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