krab salad

4.8

A salad made with imitation crab meat, mayonnaise, and vegetables

noun

: ensalada de cangrejo

The grocery store deli serves a fresh krab salad every day.

Examples

I often order a krab salad for lunch when I want something light and tasty.
She topped her crackers with a spoonful of krab salad as an appetizer.
I love krab salad on hot summer days.
Can you pass the krab salad?
I often order a krab salad for lunch when I want something light and tasty.
The grocery store deli serves a fresh krab salad every day.
She topped her crackers with a spoonful of krab salad as an appetizer.

Synonyms

tuna salad

vskrab salad

11 1.0

A salad of chopped canned tuna mixed with mayonnaise and vegetables

uses imitation seafood meat instead of canned fish as main ingredient

tuna fish salad

vskrab salad

1 1.0

A salad made from canned tuna mixed with mayonnaise and chopped vegetables like celery or onion

uses imitation seafood meat and often includes more fresh vegetables

crab Louis

vskrab salad

5.5

A cold salad of crab meat and lettuce with a creamy dressing

uses imitation seafood meat with mayonnaise and mixed vegetables

How Creamy

tuna fish salad

1 1.0

krab salad

4.8

coleslaw

30 1.8

Surface Forms

krab salad singular

krab salads plural

Morphology

krab + salad

The phrase is a straightforward noun–noun composition: 'krab' (a variant spelling used for imitation crab/surimi) + 'salad' yields a salad made with that ingredient. Even though 'krab' is a nonstandard form and marked as not found in the dictionary, the X + salad pattern is cross-linguistically common and a B1 learner who knows the constituents would readily infer the meaning.

Etymology

Krab salad uses the spelling krab with a 'k' to show the salad is made with 'imitation crab meat', fish mixed and shaped to look and taste like crab. So, krab salad means a salad made with imitation crab instead of real crab, often mixed with mayonnaise and vegetables.