
English word crib note comes from English note, English crib
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note (English)
(extension) A key of the piano or organ.. (extension) A small size of paper used for writing letters or notes.. (finance) A written or printed paper acknowledging a debt, and promising payment. (heading) A symbol or annotation.. (heading) A written or printed communication or commitment.. (music, heading) A sound.. (obsolete) A list of items or of charges; an account.. (obsolete) Mark of [...]
crib (English)
(Indian English) To complain, to grumble. (intransitive) To install timber supports, as with cribbing.. (intransitive, of a horse) To seize the manger or other solid object with the teeth and draw in wind.. (transitive) To collect one or more passages and/or references for use in a speech, written document or as an aid for some task; to create a crib sheet.. (transitive) To place or confine [...]
crib note (English)
A brief reminder or item of information written on a slip of paper or in a concealable place such as on one's arm, as an aid for a public speaker or for use by a student or other person cheating during an examination.