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crew

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English

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Etymology 1

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FromMiddle Englishcrue,fromOld Frenchcreue(“an increase, recruit, military reinforcement”),the feminine past participle ofcreistre(“grow”),fromLatincrescere(“to arise, grow”).

Noun

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crew(pluralcrews)

  1. A group of people together
    1. (obsolete)Any company of people; an assemblage; a throng.
    2. A group of people (often staff) manning and operating a large facility or piece of equipment such as a factory, ship, boat, airplane, or spacecraft.
      If you need help, please contact a member of thecrew.
      • 1905,H. G. Wells,The Empire of the Ants:
        He saw now clearly that the solecrewof the vessel was these two dead men, and though he could not see their faces, he saw by their outstretched hands, which were all of ragged flesh, that they had been subjected to some strange exceptional process of decay.
      • 2023November 29, Paul Clifton, “West is best in the Highlands”, inRAIL,number997,pages37-38:
        There's a change of driver halfway at Crianlarich. Glasgowcrewsbring the 35-year-old Class 156 north, then wait to take over the next train back south.Crewsfrom Mallaig, Oban and Fort William take their trains from the coast to Crianlarich and swap over. There's a tiny rest room on the platform, with a microwave and a sink, while they wait. Some drivers are signed all the way to the city. Most are not.
    3. A group of people working together on a task.
      Thecrewscompeted to cut the most timber.
    4. (art)The group of workers on a dramatic production who are not part of thecast.
      There are a lot of carpenters in thecrew!
      Thecrewsfor different movies would all come down to the bar at night.
    5. (informal,oftenderogatory)A close group of friends.
      I’d look out for that wholecrewdown at Jack’s.
    6. (oftenderogatory)A set of individuals lumped together by the speaker.
      • 1861William Weston Patton, (version of)John Brown's Body
        He captured Harper’s Ferry, with his nineteen men so few,
        And frightened "Old Virginny" till she trembled thru and thru;
        They hung him for a traitor, they themselves the traitorcrew,
        But his soul is marching on.
      • 1950,Bernard Nicholas Schilling,Conservative England and the Case Against Voltaire‎[1],page266:
        Malignant principles bear fruit in kind and the Revolution did no more than practice what men had been taught by the abandonedcrewof philosophers.
    7. (scouting)A group ofRovers.
    8. (slang,hip-hop)Ahip-hoporb-boyinggroup.
      • 1985,“King of Rock”,performed byRun-DMC:
        And Jay cuts the records every day of the week / And we are thecrewthat can never be meek
      • 1988February 7, Carly Darling, “L.A.—The Second Deffest City of Hip-Hop”, inLos Angeles Times‎[2]:
        The most popular and critically acclaimed rap and deejay “crews”—Run-D.M.C., Whodini, L.L. Cool J, the Beastie Boys, the Fat Boys, Public Enemy, Full Force, Salt & Pepa, Afrika Bambaataa, Kurtis Blow, Mantronix, U.T.F.O., et al.—were spawned on that city's streets.
      • 2003,Jennifer Guglielmo, Salvatore Salerno,Are Italians White?‎[3],→ISBN,page150:
        We decided we needed another rapper in thecrewand spent months looking.
      • 2016,Sophy Smith,Hip-Hop Turntablism, Creativity and Collaboration,Routledge,→ISBN,page10:
        In b-boying culture, a group of b-boys or b-girls who dance and battle together are referred to as acrew.
      • 2021,Jehnie I. Burns,Mixtape Nostalgia: Culture, Memory, and Representation,page138:
        […]mutating into all-star line-ups of emcees spitting hot bars over familiar beats, then to a singlecrewspitting bars over familiar beats, then eventually to a single crew (or artist) spitting bars over unfamiliar beats.
    9. (rowing)Arowingteam manning a single shell.
      • 1888,W.B. Woodgate,Boating‎[4],page71:
        If acrewfeather much under water, it is a good plan to seat them in a row on a bench, and give each man a stick to handle as an oar.
  2. A person in a crew
    1. (plural: crew)A member of the crew of a vessel or plant.
      Onecrewdied in the accident.
    2. (art,plural: crew)A worker on a dramatic production who is not part of thecast.
      There were three actors and sixcrewon the set.
    3. (nautical,plural: crew)A member of a ship's company who is not anofficer.
      The officers andcrewassembled on the deck.
      There are quarters for three officers and fivecrew.
  3. (sports,rowing,US,uncountable)The sport of competitiverowing.
    • 1973,University of Virginia Undergraduate Record:
      The University of Virginia belongs to the Atlantic Coast Conference and competes interscholastically in basketball, baseball,crew,cross country, fencing, football, golf, indoor track, lacrosse, polo, soccer, swimming, tennis, track, and wrestling.
    • 1989,Benjamin Spock,Mary Morgan,Spock on Spock‎[5],→ISBN,page71:
      Two Andover classmates, Al Wilson and Al Lindley, both went out forcrewin our freshman year at Yale.
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crew(third-person singular simple presentcrews,present participlecrewing,simple past and past participlecrewed)

  1. (transitiveandintransitive)To be a member of a vessel's crew
    Wecrewedtogether on a fishing boat last year.
    The ship wascrewedby fifty sailors.
  2. To be a member of a work or production crew
    The film wascrewedand directed by students.
  3. Tosupplyworkers or sailors for a crew
    • 1997,Mark Kurlansky,Cod,page182:
      The seafood companiescrewedhuge trawlers with new fishermen, many of whom were fish-plant workers, since much of the work on board a modern trawler is fish processing.
    • 2003,Kirk C. Jenkins,The Battle Rages Higher‎[6],→ISBN,page42:
      Steelecrewedthe boat with men from his own regiment and volunteers from John Wood's detachment.
  4. (nautical)To do the proper work of a sailor
    Thecrewingof the vessel before the crash was deficient.
  5. (nautical)To take on,recruit(new) crew
    • 1967January, “Tampa”, inThe Pilot‎[7],page30:
      The two ships will becrewingin the latter half of September.
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Etymology 2

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Verb

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crew

  1. (British,archaic)simplepastofcrow(“make the characteristic sound of arooster”).
    It was still dark when the cockcrew.

Etymology 3

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Probably ofBrythonicorigin.

Noun

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crew(pluralcrews)

  1. (British,dialectal)Apenfor livestock such as chickens or pigs
    • 2004,Gillian Cross,On the Edge‎[8],→ISBN,page 7:
      Between the shippon and thepig-crew,with the wind blowing over from the vegetable ground.
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Noun

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crew(pluralcrews)

  1. (dialectal,dated)TheManx shearwater.[1]
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  • Crew of a spaceship
    Crewof a spaceship
  • Crew of a rowing shell
    Crewof a rowing shell
  • Crew working on a race car
    Crewworking on a race car
  • A hip-hop crew
    A hip-hopcrew

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References

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  1. ^“crew”,inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary,Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam,1913,→OCLC.

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Noun

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crewm(pluralcrews)

  1. crew
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