Cryptic crossword clue
Better dressed than in your pants 5

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word CRABS

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What does CRABS mean?

CRABS noun
  1. A crustacean of the infraorder Brachyura, having five pairs of legs, the foremost of which are in the form of claws, and a carapace.
  2. The meat of this crustacean, served as food; crabmeat
  3. A bad-tempered person.
  4. (in plural crabs) An infestation of pubic lice (Pthirus pubis).
  5. A playing card with the rank of three.
  6. A position in rowing where the oar is pushed under the rigger by the force of the water.
  7. A defect in an outwardly normal object that may render it inconvenient and troublesome to use.
  8. An unsold book that is returned to the publisher.
CRABS verb
  1. To fish for crabs.
  2. To ruin.
  3. To complain.
  4. To drift or move sideways or to leeward (by analogy with the movement of a crab).
  5. To navigate (an aircraft, e.g. a glider) sideways against an air current in order to maintain a straight-line course.
  6. To move (a camera) sideways.
  7. (World War I), to fly slightly off the straight-line course towards an enemy aircraft, as the machine guns on early aircraft did not allow firing through the propeller disk.
  8. To back out of something.
CRABS noun
  1. The crab apple or wild apple.
  2. The tree bearing crab apples, which has a dogbane-like bitter bark with medical use.
  3. A cudgel made of the wood of the crab tree; a crabstick.
  4. A movable winch or windlass with powerful gearing, used with derricks, etc.
  5. A form of windlass, or geared capstan, for hauling ships into dock, etc.
  6. A machine used in ropewalks to stretch the yarn.
  7. A claw for anchoring a portable machine.
CRABS verb
  1. (obsolete) To irritate, make surly or sour
  2. To be ill-tempered; to complain or find fault.
  3. (British dialect) To cudgel or beat, as with a crabstick
CRABS noun
  1. The tree species Carapa guianensis, native to South America.
CRABS noun
  1. Short for carabiner.

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