crib sheet

noun

: cheat sheet

Examples of crib sheet in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

This crib sheet and matching duvet set ($90) makes an excellent gift for parents of toddlers. — Amanda Lauren, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024

The numbers matter, of course, but alas, there isn’t room in this newsletter even for a consensus estimate crib sheet. — Elaine Chen, STAT, 24 July 2024

It can be wiped down and the crib sheet can be tossed in the laundry for cleanup. — Ambrosia V. Brody, Parents, 28 Mar. 2024

His crib sheet has come in for its fair share of tweaking and critiquing down the decades, but that sense of the Cubist function—input figuration, output abstraction—still holds sway. — Susan Tallman, The New York Review of Books, 29 Dec. 2022

Now Wikipedia is seeking to rebalance its relationships with Google and other big tech firms like Amazon, Facebook, and Apple, whose platforms and virtual assistants lean on Wikipedia as a cost-free virtual crib sheet. — Noam Cohen, Wired, 16 Mar. 2021

Asked at yesterday’s briefing about Smith’s disparaging remarks about the troubled Lockheed Martin F-35 program, spokesman John Kirby read from a crib sheet a defense of sorts. — Jamie McIntyre, Washington Examiner, 10 Mar. 2021

Word History

First Known Use

circa 1940, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for crib sheet

• amit
• athlete
• backseat
• blackfeet
• broadsheet
• browbeat
• buckwheat
• compete
• compleat
• complete
• conceit
• concrete