Synonyms for crab

Most common

beef · bellyache

All synonyms

Verb

Noun

Definitions

1. v. 1

   To fish for crabs.

2. n. 1

   Any crustacean of the infraorder Brachyura, having five pairs of legs, the foremost of which are in the form of claws, and a carapace.

Related words

Word family

crabbed crabby crabeater crabgrass crablike crabwise crabber

Phrases

crab's eye brown crab coconut crab purse crab crab tree crab louse golden crab horseshoe crab

Forms

Plural

crabs → cancers, carabiners…

Past participle

crabbed
e.g. crabbed → beefed, bitched, groused, grouched…

Example sentences

• beef Have you got any preference between beef and lamb?
• bellyache A stomachache is usually mistaken for a bellyache.

Popularity over time

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

4 letters

beef¹

5 letters

bitch¹, gripe¹

6 letters

cancer², grouse¹, holler², squawk¹, grouch¹

8 letters

complain²

9 letters

carabiner, bellyache³

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (cancer² = 2 syllables).