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• n  grasses with creeping stems that root freely; a pest in lawns

• Drama in their lives is like crabgrass on their lawn: something to be rooted out the minute it appears and not dwelled upon thereafter.
• Human sprawl threatens the habitat of most animal and plant species except for cockroaches, rats, pigeons, crabgrass and other organisms that .
• In my yard there are stubborn patches of crabgrass.

• crab grass
• finger grass

News & Articles

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• Crabgrass' secret: The despised weed makes herbicide to kill neighboring plants
  Contrary to popular belief, crabgrass does not thrive in lawns, gardens and farm fields by simply crowding out other plants. A new study has found that the much-despised weed actually produces its own herbicides that kill nearby plants.
  June 26, 2013 - Science Daily

Quotes

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• Frank Luntz in Monsters and Critics.com
  GOP pollster Frank Luntz denounced Paul's supporters as "the equivalent of crabgrass . . . not the grass you want, and it spreads faster than the real stuff."
• George Carlin in Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
  Prior to that, it was all mother-in-law, crabgrass jokes, very superficial, and the Jewish Catskills stuff, all pulling stuff out of the same bag, very superficial and very nervous about sexual jokes,Carlin said.