v. [f. CRAB sb.1 + SIDLE v.] intr. To sidle or shuffle sideways like a crab.
1800. Southey, Lett. (1856), I. 105. They were obliged to walk round the first, some backwards like lobsters, others crabsidling along.
1923. The Argus (Melbourne), 27 Feb., 6/8. A party of gay youths flaunts, slithers, scuttles, and crab-sidles among the traffic of all sorts without injury.
