What is a group of crabs called?

Collective Noun for Crabs. The collective noun for crabs is the word you would use to describe a group of crabs.

We have identified the following word(s) that you could call a group of crabs:

cast
consortium

Used in a sentence, you could say "Look at the cast of crabs", where "cast" is the collective noun that means group.

As you can see, you simply substitute the word "group" with one of the collective nouns on our list above when describing a group of crabs.

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