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1.
Crumbs are tiny pieces that fall from bread, biscuits, or cake when you cut it or eat it.
I stood up, brushing ~s from my trousers.
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2.
A ~ of something, for example information, is a very small amount of it.
At last Andrew gave them a ~ of information...
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