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cribbed

/kɹɪbd/ · verb

Meaning

  1. To place or confine in a crib.
  2. To shut up or confine in a narrow habitation; to cage; to cramp.
  3. 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.
  4. To plagiarize; to copy; to cheat.
  5. To install timber supports, as with cribbing.
  6. To steal or embezzle, to cheat out of.
  7. Placed in a crib.

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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