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Definition of Cribbers
1. cribber [n] - See also: cribber
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cribbers
Literary usage of Cribbers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Discipline and the Derelict: Being a Series of Essays on Some of Those who by Thomas Arkle Clark (1921)
"The instructor in whose classes there are more cribbers than in any other I know
is the one who alleges that he takes nobody's word, and who announces that ..."
2. The Exterior of the Horse by Armand Goubaux, Gustave Barrier, Simon J. J. Harger (1892)
"But, as all horses which have the incisors too short are not necessarily cribbers,
and as, besides, in all cribbers they are not invariably shorter ..."
3. The American College by Higher Education Association (U.S.) (1910)
"I think there are very few instructors who enjoy flunking a student, and those
who use undignified methods to detect cheating were perhaps the "cribbers" in ..."
4. Education by Project Innovation (Organization) (1903)
"The fact that an introduction of the " Honor System " develops a latent wealth
of student trustworthiness and minimizes the number of " cribbers" who ..."
5. The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling (1900)
"Who called us cribbers ? Can't your infant mind connect cause and effect yet ?
Some day you'll find out that it don't pay to jest with Number Five. ..."
6. Stalky & Co. by Rudyard Kipling (1899)
"Who called us cribbers? Can't your infant mind connect cause and effect yet ?
Some day you'll find out that it don't pay ..."
7. Dramatic Values by Charles Edward Montague (1911)
"... as lazily or hurriedly as anything in Shakspere or Moliere, those arch-cribbers.
As a mainspring for plays the blackmailing lady who keeps whole ..."
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