Coop vs Crib - What's the difference?

Coop is a related term of crib.

In slang|lang=en terms the difference between coop and crib

is that coop is (slang) jail while crib is (slang) one’s residence, or where one normally hangs out.

In lang=en terms the difference between coop and crib

is that coop is to shut up or confine in a narrow space; to cramp while crib is to install timber supports, as with cribbing.

As nouns the difference between coop and crib

is that coop is a pen or enclosure for birds or coop can be while crib is (us) a baby’s bed (british and australasian cot) with high, often slatted, often moveable sides, suitable for a child who has outgrown a cradle or bassinet.

As verbs the difference between coop and crib

is that coop is to keep in a coop while crib is to place or confine in a crib.

coop

English

(wikipedia coop)

Etymology 1

From (etyl)

Noun

(en noun)

A pen or enclosure for birds.

(slang) jail

A barrel or cask for liquor.

(Johnson)

(Scotland) A cart from boards; a tumbrel.

Verb

(en verb)

To keep in a coop.

To shut up or confine in a narrow space; to cramp.

* Dryden

The Trojans cooped within their walls so long.

* John Locke

The contempt of all other knowledge coops the understanding up within narrow bounds.

(obsolete) To work upon in the manner of a cooper.

* Holland

Shaken tubs be new cooped .

Derived terms

* coop up

Etymology 2

From , by shortening.

Noun

(en noun)

English clippings English heteronyms

crib

English

(Canada) A small raft made of timber.

Synonyms

* (holiday home) bach (qualifier)

Derived terms

* crib mattress * crib sheet * crib death * crib board

Verb

(cribb)

To place or confine in a crib.

To shut up or confine in a narrow habitation; to cage; to cramp.

* I. Taylor

if only the vital energy be not cribbed or cramped

* Shakespeare

Now I am cabin'd, cribbed , confined.

To collect one or more passages and/or references for use in a speech, written document or as an aid for some task; to create a crib sheet.

I cribbed the recipe from the Food Network site, but made a few changes of my own.

To install timber supports, as with cribbing.

(obsolete) To steal or embezzle, to cheat out of.

It was very easy, Briggs said, to make a galley-slave of a boy all the half-year, and then score him up idle; and to crib two dinners a-week out of his board, and then score him up greedy; but that wasn’t going to be submitted to, he believed, was it?'' — Charles Dickens, ''Dombey and Son , 1848, Chapter 14.

(Indian English) To complain, to grumble

* {{quote-book

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To crowd together, or to be confined, as if in a crib or in narrow accommodations.

* Gauden

Who sought to make bishops to crib in a Presbyterian trundle bed.

(of a horse) To seize the manger or other solid object with the teeth and draw in wind.

Derived terms

* cribber

Anagrams

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