Crust | Mean of crust in English Dictionary

/ˈkrʌst/

• Noun
• the hard outer surface of bread
1. Her children prefer to eat their sandwiches with the crusts [=the outer edges of the bread slices] cut off.
2. a crunchy/chewy crust
3. Her children prefer to eat their sandwiches with the crust cut off.
• the outside part of a pie
1. Bake the pie until the crust [=top] is golden brown.
2. a pie with flaky crust
• the bread that is used to make a pizza
1. He likes pizza with thin/thick crust.
2. She ate three slices of pizza, but left the crusts [=the thick, outer pieces of the crust] on her plate.

• a hard layer on the surface of something
1. Our feet broke through the thin crust of ice and into the snow below.
2. the Earth's crust
• to earn the money that you need to live
1. I'm really a poet, but I've got to earn my crust as an accountant.