Hairy crab may refer to:
- Pilumnus hirtellus, a species of European crab
- Chinese mitten crab, also known as "Shanghai hairy crab" and used in cuisine
Famous quotes containing the words hairy and/or crab:
“There is the old brute, too, the savage, the hairy man who dabbles his fingers in ropes of entrails; and gobbles and belches; whose speech is guttural, visceral—well, he is here. He squats in me.”
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)
“There are no small number of people in this world who, solitary by nature,
always try to go back into their shell like a hermit crab or a snail.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)