to crib
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7.5
- verb
- /krɪb/
- Informal
:
copiar
- They aren't exact matches, but if you want to crib off this, you can reproduce these strike zones with the following equations:
But it does crib a lot from the Oculus Rift design.
- But it does crib a lot from the Oculus Rift design.
Examples
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Don't crib your jokes from the trolls of Free City.
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And cribs his book titles from after Bronowski and Clarke (as in "look at the company I'm in").
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So I'll shamelessly crib it here.
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But it does crib a lot from the Oculus Rift design.
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Let's back way up and let me crib from Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality.
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It's like trying to reason with a lunatic who thinks he's a poached egg (to crib from C.S. Lewis).
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Did Church crib it from a book on birds, such as John Gould's Monograph of the Trogonidae, or Family of Trogons (1835-38)?
Academic text (2002) -
The ego that naturally comes along with writing Oscar-winning screenplays simply will not allow someone like Michael Arndt to crib ideas off Timothy Zahn (though I loved his books in 6th grade).
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During the exam, he decided to crib some answers from his friend's paper.
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The student was caught trying to crib information from an online source for her project.
Synonyms
23
6.8
To copy someone else's words or ideas and claim them as your own without saying where they came from
To use someone else's ideas without giving them credit
Compounds
How Dishonest
Surface Forms
Etymology
To crib meaning to copy or cheat comes from the same idea of a 'crib' as a short copy or note, so to crib is to copy someone else's work, often secretly or to get unfair help.