How to pronounce crib

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What crib means

verb

Most people know crib in its everyday sense. Here's its other meaning.

To copy someone else's work and call it your own

In a sentence: Jake cribbed his answers from the girl beside him, and the teacher noticed.

Where it comes from: It is the same word as crib, the baby bed, which first meant a manger or a basket. The copying meaning probably grew from an old slang meaning, to pinch small things.

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