crablike

Examples

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• Many games can be played (or many frameworks, or sets of two points/dots/extremes, can be created or used) by making crablike or sideways moves.

  Academic text (2001)

• The game ends when it has reached the time/space sequence (n), which constitutes the last crablike or sideways move.

  Academic text (2001)

• Castel, crablike against a wall, bloody.

  Fiction book (2002)

• Not quite crablike, not quite urchinlike, not quite organic in appearance.

  Fiction book (1999)

• He lay still, listening to the approaching crunching sounds as she moved awkwardly, crablike, toward him on her skis.

  Fiction book (1996)

• She found but one fierce little crablike thing no bigger than a pinhead living solitary inside the dried blossom.

  Fiction book (1997)

• The one exception to the crablike clustering of plantations around the coast was the Amazon's most important export crop prior to rubber, cacao.

  Academic text (2001)

• There were two orange all-terrain vehicles parked out front, along with something that looked like a main battle tank, except that it had big crablike arms instead of energy cannons and slug throwers.

  Fiction book (1991)

• Nor is it a wonder that in "Exchange Value," Cooter and Loftis regard their "queer, crablike" neighbor Miss Bailey as "a squirrely old broad" (32).

  Academic text (2016)

• The monster was the size of an ox, and it scuttled about with a speedy, crablike gait.

Synonyms

C

crabwise

vscrablike

1 8.2

To move sideways or at an angle

also covers appearing similar in form or motion, not only actual movement

Antonyms

S

straightforward

1 3.5

Someone who faces forward without turning to one side

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology