English Explanatory Dictionary

crab market

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A market trend where a stock keeps fluctuating around the same price over a longer period of time, neither entering a bull market nor a bear market
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see crab, market.

Word forms

crab market crab markets

Etymology

From the movement of a crab, which appears to move sideways and seems to be going neither forward (a bull market, in this metaphor) or backward (a bear market).

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