Crab : nm Le crabe is a crustacean inland waters with five pairs of legs.
Person with a bad temper.
To have the face of a crab: to have an unpleasant, foolish face.
An old crab: a stubborn old man or grumpy.
Crab face: insult.
Crab walking: move sideways.
Basket of crabs: medium whose members seek to harm each other, to tear each other apart (See definition below).
Pubic crab, noughts and crosses.
Have crabs in the stew box: suffer from stomach cramps.
To have the crab: to have cancer.
Quote from the French writer Louis-Ferdinand Destouches, known as Céline (1894-1961) "We got out as best we could from these disastrous conflagrations, rather traviole, all slobbering crab, backwards, legs less” in the novel Guignol's band. (1952).
The expression a basket of crabs designates a group of people collaborating but harming each other.
Normally, in a tight-knit team, there is what we call “a team spirit”, all the members working hand in hand to build their project together.