Answer to "Grouses" crossword clue

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word CRABS , but the solution may also be CARPS which is one of the most recent solution (2017 in LA Times).

Grouses crossword clue answers

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

Answer	Likelyness	Letters
CRABS	27 %	5
CARPS	27 %	5
FUSSES	27 %	6
PTARMIGANS	9 %	10
SAGEHENS	9 %	8

Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Grouses

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

• beef
• bellyache
• gripe
• holler
• squawk
• gripes
• grievances
• grumbles
• ybs
• complaints
• whines
• discontentment

Crossword Answer definitions

CRABS noun

1. A crustacean of the infraorder Brachyura, having five pairs of legs, the foremost of which are in the form of claws, and a carapace.
2. The meat of this crustacean, served as food; crabmeat
3. A bad-tempered person.
4. (in plural crabs) An infestation of pubic lice (Pthirus pubis).
5. A playing card with the rank of three.
6. A position in rowing where the oar is pushed under the rigger by the force of the water.
7. A defect in an outwardly normal object that may render it inconvenient and troublesome to use.
8. An unsold book that is returned to the publisher.

CRABS verb

1. To fish for crabs.
2. To ruin.
3. To complain.
4. To drift or move sideways or to leeward (by analogy with the movement of a crab).
5. To navigate (an aircraft, e.g. a glider) sideways against an air current in order to maintain a straight-line course.
6. To move (a camera) sideways.
7. (World War I), to fly slightly off the straight-line course towards an enemy aircraft, as the machine guns on early aircraft did not allow firing through the propeller disk.
8. To back out of something.

CRABS noun

1. The crab apple or wild apple.
2. The tree bearing crab apples, which has a dogbane-like bitter bark with medical use.
3. A cudgel made of the wood of the crab tree; a crabstick.
4. A movable winch or windlass with powerful gearing, used with derricks, etc.
5. A form of windlass, or geared capstan, for hauling ships into dock, etc.
6. A machine used in ropewalks to stretch the yarn.
7. A claw for anchoring a portable machine.

CRABS verb

1. (obsolete) To irritate, make surly or sour
2. To be ill-tempered; to complain or find fault.
3. (British dialect) To cudgel or beat, as with a crabstick

CRABS noun

1. The tree species Carapa guianensis, native to South America.

CRABS noun

1. Short for carabiner.

More crossword clues leading to the same solutions

Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution

More clues leading to the result CRABS

• Curmudgeons
• Gripes
• Shore delicacy
• Seafood servings
• Malcontents
• Crustaceans with stalked eyes
• Grumpy sorts
• Coastline crawlers
• Curmudgeons or crustaceans
• Grouses

More clues leading to the result CARPS

• Complains chronically
• Cavils
• Grouses forEVer
• Grouses endlessly
• Criticizes unreasonably
• Finds fault
• Criticizes peevishly
• Quibbles
• Nitpicks
• Complains

More clues leading to the result FUSSES

• Makes mountains out of molehills
• Is overly attentive
• Stirs
• Goes to a lot of trouble
• Takes great care
• To-dos
• Takes particular care
• Stinks
• Is unduly anxious.
• Feels care or anxiety.

More clues leading to the result PTARMIGANS

• Alpine grouses
• Birds of northern regions.
• Northern grouse.
• Grouses

More clues leading to the result SAGEHENS

• Some plains fowl
• Western grouses
• Inhabitants of Nevada.
• Nevadans
• Large North American grouses
• Grouses
• Three Pomona athletes
• Some grouses