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The water-dwelling creatures commonly known as crabs are decapod crustaceans. Other zoological uses include:
Crab may also refer to:
[edit] Medicine
- Crab louse, a type of louse often found in pubic hair. Commonly referred to collectively as "crabs".
[edit] Sports and entertainment
- A faulty rowing stroke in which the oar is pulled round past the oarsman.
- An athletic move akin to the float in breakdancing.
- Maritime and climbing slang for a carabiner.
- Giant Enemy Crab, an internet meme that also appears in the video game Genji 2.
- "Krabe", one of the monsters in the animated TV series Code Lyoko.
[edit] Science and technology
- The constellation Cancer.
- Crab Nebula, the supernova remnant found in the constellation Taurus.
- Crab banana in botany.
- Any of various machines used to hoist heavy objects.
- Crab landing, a method of landing a fixed-wing aircraft in a crosswind, so named as it resembles the crustacean crab's sideways alignment.
- Crab (cipher), an encryption algorithm based on MD5.
- LMS Hughes Crab, a class of steam locomotive.
- A type of "itching" used by turntablists that involves flickering the crossfader between the thumb and fingers (starting with the little finger and ending with the index finger).
- An instruction given by a film director or television director to a camera operator requiring a sideways movement of the camera (resembling a crustacean crab).
- Sherman Crab, a British World War II mine-clearing tank.
- "Crabs", a nickname given to the Royal Air Force by the British Army and Royal Navy.
- A synonym for "grouch".
- An insult directed by the Los Angeles "Bloods" street gang toward their rivals the "Crips".
