cray

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/kɹæɪ/

noun

A crayfish or lobster.

Less commonScrabble 9

Meanings

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nouncray (plural crays)

plural crays

  1. A crayfish or lobster.

    The third stage occurs when the crays moult into miniature adults. They are now completely independent of the mother and leave her permanently after a week or so.

    2012, Robert B. McCormack, A Guide to Australia's Spiny Freshwater Crayfish, page 47

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adjectivecray (comparative more cray, superlative most cray)

comparative more cray · superlative most cray

  1. slangCrazy.

    That small of a fine for that kind of blatant disregard is cray.

    2010 November 23, Cory Giger, “NFL commish slaps Steelers in face with weak punishment of Seymour”, in The Altoona Mirror, Altoona, Pennsylvania
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    Before his set, RWD somehow found time to back a quick vodka shot in the Ice Bar downstairs - yes we're aware an ice bar in the desert is cray.

    2012 September, “Sharm x Savoy + Kiss = Happy RWD”, in Fazer, number 127, page 80

    Also, make sure you look both ways first, because the traffic is cray.

    2013, Dani Kellner, "20 Things Your Ten Year Old Self Could Do at Cornell", Slope, Spring 2013, page 18

    “Do you think when hamsters watch us eat, they think we're cute?” “How could they not? I tried to show this amazing vid to my mom. She just stared at me like I was cray. My mom and I don't have much in common anymore. It's, like, a bummer.”

    2021 March 28, Janine Brito, “Dance Dance Resolution” (3:51 from the start), in Bless the Harts, season 2, episode 15, spoken by Violet Hart (Jillian Bell)

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proper nounCray (countable and uncountable, plural Crays)

plural Crays

  1. countableuncountableA surname.
  2. countableuncountableA short river in Greater London which flows into the River Darent.
  3. countableuncountableA community (civil parish) in southern Powys, Wales.

Synonyms & antonyms

Origin

cray · adjective

Clipping of crazy, with -y to clarify pronunciation. Compare vacay (“vacation”).

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Cray · proper noun

  1. Proto-Celtic*garwos“rough”
  2. EnglishCray

* As an Irish surname, from ó Craobhaigh, a byname from craobhach (“branched”). Compare Creevy. * As an English surname, from the River Cray, of Celtic origin, from Proto-Celtic *garwos (“rough”). * As a German surname, Americanized from Krey, Kray. * As a Dutch surname, variant of Kraai, from kraai (“crow”).

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APA

cray. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cray

MLA

“cray.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cray. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “cray,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cray.

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