crew Definition

crew¹
noun

1. The team of people manning a ship, aircraft, train, bus, etc.
2. A ship's company excluding the officers.
3. A team engaged in some operation.

Example: camera crew
4. colloq, usually derog
A bunch of people.
Example: a strange crew
Thesaurus: company, team, assemblage, corps, band, gang, crowd, clique, troupe.

verb

intr
crewed, crewing
1. To serve as a crew member on a yacht, etc.

Etymology: 16c in sense 4; 15c in obsolete sense ‘reinforcement of a military force': from French creue increase, from Latin crescere to increase or grow.

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crew² past tense of crow

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crow
noun

1. Any of about 100 species of large black bird, including the carrion crow, rook, raven, etc, usually with a powerful black beak and shiny feathers.
2. The shrill drawn-out cry of a cock.

verb, intr crowed (past tense), crew, crowed (past participle), crowing (present participle)

1. Said of a cock: to cry shrilly.

Thesaurus: squawk, caw, cackle.
2. Said of a baby: to make happy inarticulate sounds.
3. To triumph gleefully over them; to gloat.

Thesaurus: boast, brag, exalt, gloat, cry.
Form: crow over someone (usually)
Form: crow over something

Idiom: as the crow flies

In a straight line.

Idiom: stone the crows!

dated, slang
An expression of amazement, horror, etc.

Etymology: Anglo-Saxon crawa.