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# crib

«crib» in Mova's school dictionary: **A baby's bed with high barred sides (UK: «cot»)** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (crib, cribs); verb (crib, cribs, cribbed, cribbing — informal)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (noun, US/Canada) A baby's bed with high barred sides (UK: «cot»). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crib/#m1)

2) (noun, UK/Ireland/Australia) A model of the stable where Jesus was born, with figures of Mary, Joseph, the baby and animals, set up at Christmas (also «nativity scene»; US «crèche»). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crib/#m2)

3) (noun) A wooden box or rack that holds food for animals; a manger. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crib/#m3)

4) (verb, informal) To copy someone else's work and pretend it is yours; to cheat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crib/#m4)

5) (noun, informal) A sheet of answers or notes used to cheat (a «crib sheet»), or a quick summary of facts. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crib/#m5)

6) (noun, slang, US) Someone's house or home: «Welcome to my crib.» [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crib/#m6)

7) (noun) Short for «cribbage», a card game. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crib/#m7)

8) A crib can also be a small store or bin for holding corn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crib/#m8)

### sense in the lessons

In family life: the baby sleeps in a crib (US) or cot (UK). In church life: at Christmas many churches and homes set up a crib, and children may take part in the crib service. At school: cribbing (copying) in a test is cheating and is punished. Slang: «crib» for home is used by teenagers and in songs. Phrases: «crib sheet», «crib from», «the Christmas crib», «crib death» (US for cot death).

### examples

- The baby is fast asleep in her crib. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crib/#x1)
- At Christmas we put the crib under the tree with little wooden sheep. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crib/#x2)
- The children placed baby Jesus in the crib at the crib service. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crib/#x3)
- The cows ate hay from the crib in the barn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crib/#x4)
- Don't crib your answers from Jack — do your own work. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crib/#x5)
- He was caught with a crib sheet in his pencil case. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crib/#x6)
- "Come round to my crib after school," said my cousin (slang). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crib/#x7)
- Grandad taught us to play crib. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crib/#x8)
- The turkey-cock slept on the beam, and the saddle rested in the empty crib. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crib/#x9)

### note

Regular verb with a doubled B: cribbed, cribbing. UK «cot» = US «crib» for a baby's bed; but in the UK, «crib» is mostly the Christmas nativity scene. Christians believe the baby Jesus was laid in a manger because there was no room at the inn. The slang «crib» (home) is informal — not for school writing.

### In the corpora

- [Where no oxen are, the crib is clean; but much increase is by the strength of the ox.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.378/)
- [Or will he abide by thy crib?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.1065/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «crib» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crib/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.