0 past simple and past participle of crib informal disapproving
It is cribbed from art critics and historians, who have not evolved a uniform connotation for the word.
It must be kept cribbed, cabined and confined, and then we must carry out a propaganda campaign to show how inefficient it is.
I have not looked up the south sea bubble debate, but no doubt we could have cribbed some terminology from there, had we tried.
Secondly, there must be freedom and initiation, and the teacher should not be cribbed, cabined, and confined within fixed and uniform rules.
However, it was cribbed, cabined and confined and it did not go far.
An opposite view is often taken and it is held that the powers of local authorities must be cribbed, cabined, confined and reduced.
They are cribbed, cabined and confined in their operations.
He conducted the inquiry into the use of manpower for the forces, but he was hedged round, "cribbed, cabined and confined" by prejudices.
