crip

Shortening of cripple.

• Rhymes: -ɪp

crip (plural crips)

1. (offensive) A cripple.
2. (rehabilitation, generally self-referential) A person with a disability.
   • 1991, Stephen King, Needful Things:

     Alan nodded. "Buster. He's parked in the crip space again. I told him last time I was through warning him about it."

crip (third-person singular simple present crips, present participle cripping, simple past and past participle cripped)

1. (dance) To do a Crip Walk.
2. (disability studies) To apply a disability justice perspective to something.
   • 2003, Carrie Sandahl, “Queering the Crip of Cripping the Queer? Intersections of Queer and Crip Identities in Solo Autobiographical Performance”, in QLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, volume 9, numbers 1–2, →DOI, page 37:

     In performance, the artists under discussion sometimes use queering and cripping against one another; they “queer the crip” and “crip the queer.” That is, queering critiques and expands notions of what it means to be crippled, and cripping critiques and expands notions of what it means to be queer.

   • 2013, Kelly Fritsch, “On the Negative Possibility of Suffering: Adorno, Feminist Philosophy, and the Transfigured Crip To Come”, in Disability Studies Quarterly‎, volume 33, number 4:

     In approaching the ISA negatively, we can begin to crip the ways in which it conceptualizes disability, gesturing towards the nonidentical that is concealed through identity and opening up space for the recognition of differences that this putatively universal symbol obfuscates.

• crip up (“to imitate a disabled person as a role while acting”)