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  • noun Plural form of crabstick.

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Examples

  • There are still super cheap platters of fried chicken, fried fish, fried shrimp and fried crabsticks … but the new Chicken House will also have Vietnamese banh mi, pho, and bun!

    Revamped Chicken House Menu to Include Banh Mi & Pho | Midtown Lunch - Finding Lunch in the Food Wasteland of NYC's Midtown Manhattan 2009

  • Yet I don't like canes nor crabsticks; govern without them if you can.

    Letter 336 2009

  • The only fishy ingredients I use are smoked salmon and crabsticks.

    The were rabbits like to play with their food. « Were rabbits 2007

  • She also puts crabsticks fake ones are just fine, finely cut thin egg omlets, slow simmered flavored shiitake to name a few toppings.

    spicy soba noodles with shiitakes | smitten kitchen 2007

  • Elayna had her usual crabsticks, but she also tried two pieces of shrimp tempura.

    mmm. Sushi yendi 2004

  • Similarly if random foodstuffs go missing from the communal fridge, particularly items that no-one in their right mind would pilfer, like the two crabsticks and one soft cheese square which went AWOL last Tuesday, then look no further for your culprit.

    competition time 2004

  • Similarly if random foodstuffs go missing from the communal fridge, particularly items that no-one in their right mind would pilfer, like the two crabsticks and one soft cheese square which went AWOL last Tuesday, then look no further for your culprit.

    A species à part 2004

  • Most crabsticks eaten in the U.S. are made from Alaskan pollock, which are usually filleted, cleaned and minced into a paste while still on the fishing boat.

    NYT > Home Page 2011

  • Onshore, the paste is mixed with starch (crabsticks can be anywhere from 40 to 70 percent filler), a little shellfish flavoring (derived from crabs or shrimp) and egg whites (to bind everything together).

    NYT > Home Page 2011

  • Doubtless, Hooker was a theological Talus, with a club of iron against, opponents with pasteboard helmets, and armed only with crabsticks!

    The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Henry Nelson Coleridge 1820

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