(business, idiomatic) To perform a process; to do some work. / 2006, Rebecca Jordan and Kirsty Weir, In Good Company: The essential business start-up guide for women, A & C Black, page 229:

Synonym of edible crab (Cancer pagurus) / Ellipsis of brown king crab. (Lithodes aequispinus) / Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see brown, crab.

Cancer pagurus; a species of robust crab of a reddish-brown color found in the North Sea, North Atlantic Ocean, and perhaps in the Mediterranean Sea.

Any of various crabs of the genus Macrophthalmus, with long eyestalks.

(transitive, slang, idiomatic, mildly vulgar) To ruin, botch, bungle; to make a mess of. / (idiomatic, slang, mildly vulgar) To go wrong; to foul up; to make a mistake.

plural of crack-hemp

(obsolete) A person who deserves to be, or is likely to be, hanged.

plural of crack-rope

(obsolete) A person who deserves to be, or is likely to be, hanged; a gallows bird.

One of 254 counties in Texas, United States. County seat: Crane.