Cribbing
/ˈkɹɪbɪŋ/
Last Updated: January 2, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Scrabble:15 ptsWWF:20 pts8 letters
Definition of Cribbing
verb
- To place or confine in a crib.
- To shut up or confine in a narrow habitation; to cage; to cramp.
- 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.
"I cribbed the recipe from the Food Network site, but made a few changes of my own."
- To plagiarize; to copy; to cheat.
- To install timber supports, as with cribbing.
noun
- The members used to build a (structural) crib, usually of timbers or logs, but also of concrete, steel or even plastic; cribwork.
- As a whole, the heavy structure built to support an existing structure from underneath, as with a mineshaft or when raising a building off its foundation, as for moving to another location,
"After the Loma Prieta earthquake, they had to put cribbing under portions of San Francisco's Embarcadero Freeway, for fear it would collapse."
- The cribbing used to support anything from below or on a side, as with a retaining wall, or to prop up a piece of heavy machinery.
- A self-injurious tendency of certain horses to swallow air while slobbering and biting onto objects in and about their enclosure; cribbing and windsucking are regarded as equine forms of obsessive-compulsive disorder.
- An act of plagiarism.
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