crew
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Is crew a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. A group of people togetherExamples: "There a noble crew / Of Lordes and Ladies stood on every side."; "Faithful to whom? to thy rebellious crew?"obsolete
2. A group of people togetherExamples: "There are a lot of carpenters in the crew!"; "The crews for different movies would all come down to the bar at night."
3. A group of people togetherExamples: "I’d look out for that whole crew down at Jack’s."derogatoryinformaloften
4. A group of people togetherExamples: "1861 William Weston Patton, (version of) John Brown's Body He captured Harper’s Ferry, with his nineteen men so few, And frightened "Old Virginny" till she trembled thru and thru; They hung him for a traitor, they themselves the traitor crew, But his soul is marching on."; "Malignant principles bear fruit in kind and the Revolution did no more than practice what men had been taught by the abandoned crew of philosophers."Synonyms: crowd, flock, lot, gangderogatoryoften
5. A group of people together
6. A group of people togetherExamples: "And Jay cuts the records every day of the week / And we are the crew that can never be meek"; "The most popular and critically acclaimed rap and deejay “crews”—Run-D.M.C., Whodini, L.L. Cool J, the Beastie Boys, the Fat Boys, Public Enemy, Full Force, Salt & Pepa, Afrika Bambaataa, Kurtis Blow, Mantronix, U.T.F.O., et al.—were spawned on that city's streets."; "We decided we needed another rapper in the crew and spent months looking."Synonyms: posse, band, groupslang
verb (English)
1. (transitive and intransitive) To be a member of a vessel's crewExamples: "We crewed together on a fishing boat last year."; "The ship was crewed by fifty sailors."intransitivetransitive
2. (nautical) To do the proper work of a sailorExamples: "The crewing of the vessel before the crash was deficient."
3. (nautical) To take on, recruit (new) crewExamples: "The two ships will be crewing in the latter half of September."
verb (English)
1. (British, archaic) simple past of crow (“make the characteristic sound of a rooster”).Examples: "It was still dark when the cock crew."; "And, as the Cock crew, those who stood before The Tavern shouted — "Open then the Door! You know how little while we have to stay, And, once departed, may return no more.""Britisharchaicform-ofpast
noun (English)
1. (British, dialectal chiefly Scotland, Northern England, East Midlands) A pen for livestock such as chickens or pigsExamples: "Between the shippon and the pig-crew, with the wind blowing over from the vegetable ground."BritishEast-MidlandsNorthern-EnglandScotlanddialectal
noun (English)
1. (dialectal, dated) The Manx shearwater.dateddialectal
noun (English)
1. (library science) Acronym of continuous review, evaluation, and weeding.abbreviationacronymalt-ofuncountable
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