crabber n.
1. (US) a small-time gambler [? one who keeps their ‘claws’ on their cash].
![]() | Wanderings of a Vagabond 361: By this time it appeared a heavier class of players had entered the place, and to make room for them at the table, the ‘crabbers’ were forced to vacate. |
2. a fault-finder, a nag [crab v. (1)].
![]() | N.Y. Tribune 19 May 8/5: A ‘dynamiter’ in engineer parlance, is the nth degree of knocker, crabber, kicker, sourball. | |
![]() | AS XIV:2 90: crabber. A grouch. | ‘The Language of the Tennessee Mountain Regions’ in|
![]() | Shilling for Candles 82: There were one or two crabbers, of course. |