Usually means: Musical composition mirroring itself backwards.
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  1. crab canon: Merriam-Webster
  2. crab canon: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. crab canon: Collins English Dictionary
  4. crab canon: Wiktionary
  5. crab canon: Infoplease Dictionary
  6. crab canon: Dictionary.com
  7. Crab canon: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. crab canon: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (crab canon)

noun:  (music) A contrapuntal composition in which one melody is superimposed on the same melody in reverse

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