as in crabs
an irritable and complaining person
that old sourpuss must spend all his time making sure no one traipses across his lawn
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Noun
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While pharmaceutical companies traditionally return the crabs to the water after extracting a portion of their blood for LAL tests, mortality rates after bleeding can exceed 15–30% in some estimates.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
7 Jan. 2026 -
On top of this lobster heist that’s grabbing headlines, a load of crabs being shipped from a cold storage facility in Massachusetts also went missing on December 2, The Boston Globe reported.—
Jeremy Repanich,
Robb Report,
31 Dec. 2025
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If family needs cause drama, set kind boundaries and explain them to any complainers.—
Tarot.com,
New York Daily News,
2 Jan. 2026
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The faculty experience has been that administrations often side with the complainers.—
Louis Menand,
New Yorker,
26 Sep. 2025
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China’s decision not to renew the leases of those four bears was potentially related to Taiwan as well, one international relations expert told CNN earlier, coming after Shirahama elected a mayor with a pro-Taiwan stance.—
Chris Lau,
CNN Money,
25 Jan. 2026
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The bears are sick of hearing about the long-term fundamentals.—
Jim Cramer,
CNBC,
25 Jan. 2026
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In academic and intellectual circles, defenders of market economics were few and far between and widely viewed as cranks or worse.—
The Editorial Board,
Oc Register,
23 Nov. 2025
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Perhaps the base of the U is a gear system connecting the cranks at one end.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
22 Nov. 2025
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Those typically involve a winning team, which can forge indelible memories in the biggest curmudgeons among us.—
Chris Branch,
New York Times,
8 Oct. 2025
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Nostalgic curmudgeons will tell you the food’s gone downhill, but the wings taste better than ever.—
Jay Deitcher,
Time,
6 Aug. 2025
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“Sourpusses.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sourpusses. Accessed 30 Jan. 2026.
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