| crab | a stroke of the oar that either misses the water or digs too deeply, he caught a crab and lost the race |
| meat grinder | any action resulting in injury or destruction, the meat grinder of politics destroyed his reputation, allied forces crumbled before the Wehrmacht meat grinder |
meatpacking
meat packing
meat-packing business | wholesale packaging of meat for future sale (including slaughtering and processing and distribution to retailers) |
horseshoe crab
king crab Limulus polyphemus
Xiphosurus polyphemus | large marine arthropod of the Atlantic coast of North America having a domed carapace that is shaped like a horseshoe and a stiff pointed tail, a living fossil related to the wood louse |
| Asian horseshoe crab | horseshoe crab of the coast of eastern Asia |
| crab-eating opossum | South American opossum |
| crab | decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers |
stone crab
Menippe mercenaria | large edible crab of the southern coast of the United States (particularly Florida) |
| hard-shell crab | edible crab that has not recently molted and so has a hard shell |
soft-shell crab
soft-shelled crab | edible crab that has recently molted and not yet formed its new shell |
Dungeness crab
Cancer magister | small edible crab of Pacific coast of North America |
rock crab
Cancer irroratus | crab of eastern coast of North America |
Jonah crab
Cancer borealis | large red deep-water crab of the eastern coast of North America |
| swimming crab | marine crab with some legs flattened and fringed for swimming |
English lady crab
Portunus puber | crab of the English coasts |
American lady crab
lady crab
calico crab
Ovalipes ocellatus | brightly spotted crab of sandy beaches of the Atlantic coast of the United States |
blue crab
Callinectes sapidus | bluish edible crab of Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of North America |
| fiddler crab | burrowing crab of American coastal regions having one claw much enlarged in the male |
| pea crab | tiny soft-bodied crab living commensally in the mantles of certain bivalve mollusks |
oyster crab
Pinnotheres ostreum | tiny soft-bodied crab living within the mantle cavity of oysters |
king crab Alaska crab
Alaskan king crab
Alaska king crab
Paralithodes camtschatica | large edible crab of northern Pacific waters especially along the coasts of Alaska and Japan |
| spider crab | any of numerous crabs with very long legs and small triangular bodies |
European spider crab
king crab Maja squinado | a large spider crab of Europe |
giant crab
Macrocheira kaempferi | very large deep-water Japanese crab |
| hermit crab | small soft-bodied marine crustaceans living in cast-off shells of gastropods |
mantis shrimp
mantis crab | tropical marine burrowing crustaceans with large grasping appendages |
crabeater seal
crab-eating seal | silvery grey Antarctic seal subsisting on crustaceans |
crab-eating dog
crab-eating fox
Dusicyon cancrivorus | wild dog of northern South America |
crab louse
pubic louse
crab Phthirius pubis | a louse that infests the pubic region of the human body |
crab-eating macaque
croo monkey
Macaca irus | monkey of southeast Asia, Borneo and the Philippines |
crab-eating raccoon
Procyon cancrivorus | a South American raccoon |
butcher shop
meat market | a shop in which meat and poultry (and sometimes fish) are sold |
cleaver
meat cleaver
chopper | a butcher's knife having a large square blade |
| meat counter | counter where meats are displayed for sale |
| meat grinder | a mill for grinding meat |
| meat hook | a strong pointed hook from which the carcasses of animals are hung |
| meat house | a small house (on a farm) where meat is stored |
| meat safe | a safe for storing meat |
| meat thermometer | a thermometer that is inserted into the center of a roast (with the top away from the heat source), used to measure how well done the meat is |
smokehouse
meat house | a small house where smoke is used to cure meat or fish |
hooks
meat hooks
maulers | large strong hand (as of a fighter), wait till I get my hooks on him |
| meat and potatoes | the fundamental part, successful negotiation is the meat and potatoes of arbitration |
kernel
substance core
center
centre
essence
gist
heart heart and soul
inwardness marrow
meat
nub
pith
sum
nitty-gritty f a e a c | the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience, the gist of the prosecutor's argument, the heart and soul of the Republican Party, the nub of the story |
canned meat
tinned meat | meat preserved in a can or tin |
| crab cocktail | a cocktail of cold cooked crabmeat and a sauce |
| stew meat | tough meat that needs stewing to be edible |
breast
white meat | meat carved from the breast of a fowl |
| meat | the flesh of animals (including fishes and birds and snails) used as food |
| dark meat | the flesh of the legs of fowl used as food |
| raw meat | uncooked meat |