'kerb' is a correct and commonly used word in written English.
It refers to the edge of a road or sidewalk that is raised to separate it from the adjoining area. You can use 'kerb' when describing the physical layout of a street, sidewalk, or parking lot. For example, "The cars were parked tightly against the kerb, leaving little room for pedestrians to pass by." Another example could be, "The delivery truck mounted the kerb while trying to make a sharp turn, causing damage to the sidewalk."
The actual cause of the accident was a failure of the nose wing structure, probably weakened by Ratzenberger clouting a kerb on a previous lap.
Whether or not he had partly dislodged the wing against a kerb earlier in the lap may never be known, but the effect of its absence was an indictment of the latest technology, which relies heavily on downforce – the effect of air passing over the car and its aerodynamic appendages.
It prompted agencies in Suffolk to tackle the problem: police arrested kerb crawlers, female officers worked with women on the streets and council drug schemes allowed addicts faster and easier access to the heroin substitute methadone.
"We can walk to the kerb from here".
"It can't even climb the kerb".
Negotiating even a kerb is tricky for this vehicle with its large wheels and vestigial sports tyres, but nobody cares.In fact, so impressive a vehicle to drive is the X5 and its imitators from the likes of Lexus and Chevrolet that it is only made ridiculous if you try to imagine it fording an Amazonian jungle pool.
The original referred to curb-crawling rather than kerb-crawling.
Their quality can surely be gauged by being the only people in the country who had not heard that Savile dated mortuary corpses, kerb-crawled in a camper van and was an enthusiastic nick-sniffer.
But soliciting in public is forbidden, as is "kerb-crawling".
STREET-WALKERS; kerb-crawlers; phone booths plastered with pictures of breasts and buttocks: the sheer seediness of prostitution is just one reason governments have long sought to outlaw it, or corral it in licensed brothels or "tolerance zones".
Men who are jailed for kerb-crawling spend less time behind bars.
