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Book mango 418 Posted 7 years ago
Grammar

Going (for) “picking crabs,”

Hello,

Motoring out Wenona’s dredged channel, Mike announced we would be going for “picking crabs,” by which he meant the sooks that would be steamed and picked for crabmeat.

William Warner, Beautiful Swimmers: Waterman, Crabs and the Chesapeake Bay

I usually see go shopping/fishing/crabbing. What is the difference between "go for picking crabs" and "go picking crabs"?

  

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A "picking crab" appears to be a particular type of crab. They will be trying to catch these "picking crabs". I don't know the term myself, and there are few relevant Google results.

— GPY

  • A "picking crab" appears to be a particular type of crab.
  • They will be trying to catch these "picking crabs".
  • I don't know the term myself, and there are few relevant Google results.
  • It may just mean a crab from which one can pick out crabmeat (which would be almost any type of crab, but hey).
  • According to one Google result, "A picking crab is a crab that recently shed its shell [and] hasn't had time for the new shell to form underneath".
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A "picking crab" appears to be a particular type of crab. They will be trying to catch these "picking crabs". I don't know the term myself, and there are few relevant Google results. It may just mean a crab from which one can pick out crabmeat (which would be almost any type of crab, but hey).

According to one Google result, "A picking crab is a crab that recently shed its shell [and] h

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I grew up around the Chesapeake Bay. It was a tradition to go buy steamed crabs for picking. They were sprinkled with red pepper, and were really messy to eat. You had to pick the meat out of the shell. Your hands and mouth would burn from the pepper, but it was still delicious. The tables were covered in paper and we wore large paper bibs to make the clean-up easier.
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What is the difference between "go for picking crabs" and "go picking crabs".

go for picking crabs go for means choose the kind of crabs that would be steamed and picked for crab meat.

Consider this simpler example. At the ice-cream store, Tom always goes for chocolate ice-cream, and his sister goes for strawberryf

go picking crabs go on

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book mango 418go for "picking crabs"

for = to get; to collect

We're going to the market for bread and eggs. Do you want to come along?

CJ

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