crablike
adjEtymology From crab + -like. In sense “moving sideways”, due to crab’s sideways walk.
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Having some characteristics of a crab
- It was in this stream, I recalled from newspaper items, that one of the morbid crablike beings had been seen floating after the floods.1931, H. P. Lovecraft, chapter 6, in The Whisperer in Darkness:
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Walking or moving sideways
- Derived terms
- crab-like rove beetle
- Related terms
- sidle