A Quick and Simple Dictionary

crib

1. Noun.  (US) 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.
2. Noun.  (British) A bed for a child older than a baby.
3. Noun.  (nautical) A small sleeping berth in a packet ship or other small vessel.
4. Noun.  A wicker basket; compare Moses basket.
5. Noun.  A manger, a feeding trough for animals elevated off the earth or floor, especially one for fodder such as hay.
6. Noun.  The baby Jesus and the manger in a creche or Nativity scene, consisting of statues of Mary, Joseph and various other characters such as the magi.
7. Noun.  A bin for drying or storing grain, as with a corn crib.
8. Noun.  A small room or covered structure, especially one of rough construction, used for storage or penning animals.
9. Noun.  A confined space, as with a cage or office-cubicle.
10. Noun.  (obsolete) A job, a position; (British), an appointment.
11. Noun.  A hovel, a roughly constructed building best suited to the shelter of animals but used for human habitation.
12. Noun.  (slang) One’s residence, or where one normally hangs out.
13. Noun.  A boxy structure traditionally built of heavy wooden timbers, to support an existing structure from below, as with a mineshaft or a building being raised off its foundation in preparation for being moved; see cribbing.
14. Noun.  (usually, plural) A collection of quotes or references for use in speaking, for for assembling a written document, or as an aid to a project of some sort; a crib sheet.
15. Noun.  (obsolete) A minor theft, extortion or embezzlement, with or without criminal intent.
16. Noun.  (cribbage) : Short for the card game cribbage.
17. Noun.  (cribbage) : The cards discarded by players and used by the dealer.
18. Noun.  (cryptography) A known piece of information corresponding to a section of encrypted text, that is then used to work out the remaining sections.
19. Noun.  (New Zealand, southern) A small holiday home, often near a beach and of simple construction.
20. Noun.  (Australia, New Zealand) A packed lunch taken to work.
21. Verb.  (transitive) To place or confine in a crib.
22. Verb.  (intransitive) 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.
23. Verb.  (intransitive) To install timber supports, as with cribbing.
24. Verb.  (transitive, obsolete) To steal or embezzle, to cheat out of: petty thieving.
25. Verb.  (Indian English) To complain, to grumble.