Answer to "Expectant parents’ selection" crossword clue

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word CRIB , but the solution may also be NAME which is one of the most recent solution (2024 in New York Times).

Expectant parents’ selection crossword clue answers

Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.

Answer	Likelyness	Letters
CRIB	50 %	4
NAME	50 %	4

Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Expectant parents’ selection

These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.

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Crossword Answer definitions

CRIB noun

1. A baby’s bed with high, often slatted, often moveable sides, suitable for a child who has outgrown a cradle or bassinet.
2. A bed for a child older than a baby.
3. A small sleeping berth in a packet ship or other small vessel
4. A wicker basket; compare Moses basket.
5. A manger, a feeding trough for animals elevated off the earth or floor, especially one for fodder such as hay.
6. The baby Jesus and the manger in a creche or nativity scene, consisting of statues of Mary, Joseph and various other characters such as the magi.
7. A bin for drying or storing grain, as with a corn crib.
8. A small room or covered structure, especially one of rough construction, used for storage or penning animals.
9. A confined space, as with a cage or office-cubicle
10. A job, a position; (British), an appointment.
11. A hovel, a roughly constructed building best suited to the shelter of animals but used for human habitation.
12. One’s residence, or where one normally hangs out. A house or dwelling place.
13. A boxy structure traditionally built of heavy wooden timbers, to support an existing structure from below, as with a mineshaft or a building being raised off its foundation in preparation for being moved; see cribbing.
14. (usually in the plural) A collection of quotes or references for use in speaking, for assembling a written document, or as an aid to a project of some sort; a crib sheet.
15. A minor theft, extortion or embezzlement, with or without criminal intent.
16. The card game cribbage.
17. The cards discarded by players and used by the dealer.
18. A known piece of information corresponding to a section of encrypted text, that is then used to work out the remaining sections.
19. A small holiday home, often near a beach and of simple construction.
20. A packed lunch taken to work.
21. A small raft made of timber.
22. (thieves' cant) The stomach.
23. A cheat sheet or past test used by students; crib sheet.

CRIB verb

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. (Indian English) To complain, to grumble
8. To crowd together, or to be confined, as if in a crib or in narrow accommodations.
9. (of a horse) To seize the manger or other solid object with the teeth and draw in wind.

More crossword clues leading to the same solutions

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More clues leading to the result CRIB

• Pony
• Corn rack
• Corny place?
• Manger
• Plagiarize
• Babe's bed
• Nursery furniture
• Cheater's reference
• Place to celebrate first night?
• Test-prep for the clueless

More clues leading to the result NAME

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• Address preceder
• Form's top line, often
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