The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word CRIBS which also is the latest solution we found used in LA Times in 2013.
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| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| CRIBS | 100 % | 5 |
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These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- crib
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- table
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- particular
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Crossword Answer definitions
CRIBS noun- A baby’s bed with high, often slatted, often moveable sides, suitable for a child who has outgrown a cradle or bassinet.
- A bed for a child older than a baby.
- A small sleeping berth in a packet ship or other small vessel
- A wicker basket; compare Moses basket.
- A manger, a feeding trough for animals elevated off the earth or floor, especially one for fodder such as hay.
- 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.
- A bin for drying or storing grain, as with a corn crib.
- A small room or covered structure, especially one of rough construction, used for storage or penning animals.
- A confined space, as with a cage or office-cubicle
- A job, a position; (British), an appointment.
- A hovel, a roughly constructed building best suited to the shelter of animals but used for human habitation.
- One’s residence, or where one normally hangs out. A house or dwelling place.
- 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.
- (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.
- A minor theft, extortion or embezzlement, with or without criminal intent.
- The card game cribbage.
- The cards discarded by players and used by the dealer.
- A known piece of information corresponding to a section of encrypted text, that is then used to work out the remaining sections.
- A small holiday home, often near a beach and of simple construction.
- A packed lunch taken to work.
- A small raft made of timber.
- (thieves' cant) The stomach.
- A cheat sheet or past test used by students; crib sheet.
- To place or confine in a crib.
- To shut up or confine in a narrow habitation; to cage; to cramp.
- 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.
- To plagiarize; to copy; to cheat.
- To install timber supports, as with cribbing.
- To steal or embezzle, to cheat out of.
- (Indian English) To complain, to grumble
- To crowd together, or to be confined, as if in a crib or in narrow accommodations.
- (of a horse) To seize the manger or other solid object with the teeth and draw in wind.
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