2608: Crib (Building) Feb 4, 2022

'Crib' usually refers to a baby's bed, especially one with slatted walls, but as MTV would immortalize, it can also refer to someone's house or crime den. In fact, the criminal sense is older than that of regular domesticity, and seems to have originated with the sense of a basket or pouch for keeping stored, stolen items, and then denoted the hideout. Certainly, other senses of this word relate to storage, like 'corn crib' or in Australia that this can refer to a lunchbox. Further, the sense of 'crib' as 'cheating', like 'crib sheet' probably comes from this.