crab|like

crab|like
crab|like «KRAB LYK», adjective, adverb.
–adj.
1. like a crab.
2. suggesting the sideways movements of a crab in walking: »

The crablike course of the graph indicates a decline in business.

–adv.
sideways: »

They rowed crablike upstream.


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