Crab
To see a crab in your dream, signifies you perseverance and tenacity.
On an extreme note, you maybe be too clingy and dependent and hanging on to a hopeless endeavor.
Crabs are also symbolic of your irritable personality, as in the pun, being "crabby".
Dictionary definition
- n. 1: decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers
- 2: a quarrelsome grouch [syn: crab, crabby person]
- 3: (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Cancer [syn: Cancer, Crab]
- 4: the fourth sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about June 21 to July 22 [syn: Cancer, Cancer the Crab, Crab]
- 5: the edible flesh of any of various crabs [syn: crab, crabmeat]
- 6: a louse that infests the pubic region of the human body [syn: crab louse, pubic louse, crab, Phthirius pubis]
- 7: a stroke of the oar that either misses the water or digs too deeply; "he caught a crab and lost the race"
- v. 1: direct (an aircraft) into a crosswind
- 2: scurry sideways like a crab
- 3: fish for crab
- 4: complain; "What was he hollering about?" [syn: gripe, bitch, grouse, crab, beef, squawk, bellyache, holler]