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fighting crab
Fiddler Fid"dler, n. [AS. fi?elere.] 1. One who plays on a fiddle or violin. 2. (Zo["o]l.) A burrowing crab of the genus Gelasimus, of many species. The male has one claw very much enlarged, and often holds it in a position similar to that in which a musician holds a fiddle, hence the name; -- called also calling crab, soldier crab, and fighting crab. 3. (Zo["o]l.) The common European sandpiper (Tringoides hypoleucus); -- so called because it continually oscillates its body. Fiddler crab. (Zo["o]l.) See Fiddler, n., 2.
Fighting crab
Fighting Fight"ing, a. 1. Qualified for war; fit for battle. An host of fighting men. --2 Chron. xxvi. 11. 2. Occupied in war; being the scene of a battle; as, a fighting field. --Pope. A fighting chance, one dependent upon the issue of a struggle. [Colloq.] Fighting crab (Zo["o]l.), the fiddler crab. Fighting fish (Zo["o]l.), a remarkably pugnacious East Indian fish (Betta pugnax), reared by the Siamese for spectacular fish fights.

Meaning of Fighting crab from wikipedia

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- crabs and Armen's friends, Bobby, Manny and Jimmy, drag him to a club owned by his uncle Bruno. The crabs get into a fight with an arrogant sea crab named...
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