"crip" meaning in English

See crip in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: crips [plural]
Rhymes: -ɪp Etymology: Shortening of cripple. Head templates: {{en-noun}} crip (plural crips)
  1. (offensive) A cripple. Tags: offensive
    Sense id: en-crip-en-noun-HjspglUn
  2. (rehabilitation, generally self-referential) A person with a disability.
    Sense id: en-crip-en-noun--ehpI2AT
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: cripqueer, queercrip, supercrip

Verb

Forms: crips [present, singular, third-person], cripping [participle, present], cripped [participle, past], cripped [past]
Rhymes: -ɪp Etymology: Shortening of cripple. Head templates: {{en-verb}} crip (third-person singular simple present crips, present participle cripping, simple past and past participle cripped)
  1. (dance) To do a Crip Walk. Categories (topical): Dance
    Sense id: en-crip-en-verb-9Rn1iMSc Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 8 16 64 12 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 6 6 80 8 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 6 4 84 7 Topics: dance, dancing, hobbies, lifestyle, sports
  2. (disability studies) To apply a disability justice perspective to something.
    Sense id: en-crip-en-verb-r-omYUry
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: crip up (english: to imitate a disabled person as a role while acting)

Inflected forms

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    },
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      "_dis1": "0 0",
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      "_dis1": "0 0",
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    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Shortening of cripple.",
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        "plural"
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        "A cripple."
      ],
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      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(offensive) A cripple."
      ],
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        "offensive"
      ]
    },
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          "ref": "1991, Stephen King, Needful Things:",
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        }
      ],
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        "A person with a disability."
      ],
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          "disability"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "rehabilitation; generally self-referential; rehabilitation; generally self-referential",
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        "(rehabilitation, generally self-referential) A person with a disability."
      ]
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    }
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    },
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        "To do a Crip Walk."
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        "(dance) To do a Crip Walk."
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          "ref": "2003, Carrie Sandahl, “Queering the Crip of Cripping the Queer? Intersections of Queer and Crip Identities in Solo Autobiographical Performance”, in QLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, volume 9, numbers 1–2, →DOI, page 37:",
          "text": "In performance, the artists under discussion sometimes use queering and cripping against one another; they “queer the crip” and “crip the queer.” That is, queering critiques and expands notions of what it means to be crippled, and cripping critiques and expands notions of what it means to be queer.",
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          "ref": "2013, Kelly Fritsch, “On the Negative Possibility of Suffering: Adorno, Feminist Philosophy, and the Transfigured Crip To Come”, in Disability Studies Quarterly, volume 33, number 4:",
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        "(disability studies) To apply a disability justice perspective to something."
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        "A cripple."
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        "(offensive) A cripple."
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    "Pages with entries",
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        "To do a Crip Walk."
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        "(dance) To do a Crip Walk."
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          "text": "In performance, the artists under discussion sometimes use queering and cripping against one another; they “queer the crip” and “crip the queer.” That is, queering critiques and expands notions of what it means to be crippled, and cripping critiques and expands notions of what it means to be queer.",
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          "ref": "2013, Kelly Fritsch, “On the Negative Possibility of Suffering: Adorno, Feminist Philosophy, and the Transfigured Crip To Come”, in Disability Studies Quarterly, volume 33, number 4:",
          "text": "In approaching the ISA negatively, we can begin to crip the ways in which it conceptualizes disability, gesturing towards the nonidentical that is concealed through identity and opening up space for the recognition of differences that this putatively universal symbol obfuscates.",
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        "To apply a disability justice perspective to something."
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        "(disability studies) To apply a disability justice perspective to something."
      ]
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    }
  ],
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