crib

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
crib/krɪb/

▶noun

• 1 chiefly N. Amer. a child's bed with barred or latticed sides; a cot.

  ■ a manger.

  ■ Brit. a model of the Nativity of Christ.

• 2 informal a translation of a text for use by students, especially in a surreptitious way.

  ■ a thing that has been plagiarized.

• 3 informal, chiefly N. Amer. an apartment or house.

• 4 short for cribbage.

  ■ the cards discarded by the players at cribbage.

• 5 (also cribwork) a heavy timber framework used in foundations.

• 6 Austral./NZ a snack.

▶verb (cribs, cribbing, cribbed)

• 1 informal copy illicitly or without acknowledgement.

  ■ archaic steal.

• 2 archaic restrain.

• 3 Brit. dated grumble.

– derivatives
cribber noun.

– origin OE, of Gmc origin.