gib

plural gibs

1. A castrated male cat or ferret.
2. A male cat; a tomcat.
3. A hooked prolongation on the lower jaw of a male salmon or trout.
4. The lower lip of a horse.

plural gibs

1. A strip, wedge, or bolt made from metal or wood and used for holding a machine part in place; usually with features (such as a taper and/or set screws) that allow for fine adjustment of the part's position.

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   ‘Neuf à la banque,’ quietly said the croupier. With his spatula he faced the Greek's two cards, ‘Et le sept,’ he said unemotionally, lifting up gently the corpses of the seven and queen and slipping them through the wide slot in the table near his chair which leads into the gib metal canister to which all dead cards are consigned.

   1953, Ian Fleming, “The High Table”, in Casino Royale, London: Pan Books, published 1955, page 75

present singular third person gibs · participle present gibbing · participle past gibbed · past gibbed

1. To fasten in place with a gib.

plural gibs

1. pluralusuallyvideo gamesA piece of a fragged character, most often in first-person shooters.
2. rarevideo gamesAn instance of gibbing something.

   The object is to get the most frags(with some extra enjoyment for quality frags/gibs) […]

   1996 July 25, Jace Dinehart, “Player review, thread jump, reg. Ver bugs.”, in rec.games.computer.quake.misc (Usenet)

present singular third person gibs · participle present gibbing · participle past gibbed · past gibbed

1. transitivevideo gamesTo destroy an in-game object so that it turns into gibs.

   Johnny Turbo has a chainsaw leg he can use to slide around and gib enemies […]

   2023 August 10, Austin Suther, “Turbo Overkill Review - Become Chainsaw Man”, in TechRaptor

2. intransitivevideo gamesTo be turned into gibs.

   Weapons like the Devastator and other explosives make enemies gib into a bloody gore […]

   2020 September 24, Antal Bokor, “Review: Over the Top Serious Sam 4 Is More of What you Want”, in Third Coast Review

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present singular third person gibs · participle present gibbing · participle past gibbed · past gibbed

1. New ZealandTo install plasterboard.

   As the wallpaper stripping progresses the damage to walls becomes more apparent. It may require more variation orders for gibbing of walls as well as ceilings.

   2014 October 4, Chris Hutching, “An earthquake repair story from the south”, in NBR

1. To give.

   Don’t your mommy gib you bacoln?

   1988, Lynda Barry, The Good Times Are Killing Me, published 2020, →ISBN

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   Only gib me some few shingles an’ a flo’, an’ dar yer hev jes ez good a church ez de ’postles ebber hed ter preach in.

   1880, Albion W. Tourgee, “Red Wing”, in Bricks Without Straw, New York, N.Y.: Fords, Howard, & Hulbert; London: Sampson Low & Co.; Montreal, Que.: Dawson Bros., page 87

   I has gib you licker an’ I has gib you music, an’ wife, dar, is cookin’ supper fur you, an’ it ain’ no mo’ den reason dat I’d wanter know whut we gwine git fur it.[…]“Yo’ supper is done an’ ef you’ll jest gib me room I’ll fix de table,” the woman remarked, taking the bread off the griddle.

   1896, Opie Read, chapter VIII, in The Jucklins, Chicago, Ill.: Laird & Lee, pages 105 and 107

   De kindest heartedest little boy in de worl’ would forget to gib his cat its dinner if he had a new toy to play wid, or a new suit o’ party dress to put on to show his poppy when he come home.

   1902, John Kendrick Bangs, Bikey the Skicycle & Other Tales of Jimmieboy, New York, N.Y.: Riggs Publishing Company, page 181

   Please, Mars’ Gineral, do gib me dime fer snack.

   1938, Hervey Allen, Action at Aquila, New York, N.Y.: Farrar & Rinehart, page 98

   “My daddy doesn’t gib me guns, ’cause he doesn’t like dem. But Pop will gib me one when I gets ten.”

   2002 July, Patricia Sprinkle, Who Invited the Dead Man?, Signet, →ISBN

plural gibs

1. A benefit or handout.

plural GIBs

1. abbreviationinitialismslangaeronauticsInitialism of guy in back (someone who sits in the back of a jet).

   You undoubtedly know that each F-4 Phantom jet carried two pilots in separate, tandem cockpits. Major Dennis Harper was the frontseater and was the AC or Aircraft Commander. Jim was the backseater or the GIB.

   2002, Lynda Twyman Paffrath, Angels Unknown, San Mateo, C.A.: Lightbourne Books, →ISBN, page 257

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   When I originally checked out in the airplane, we got a few orientation rides in the backseat to familiarize us with the systems, but I was not very knowledgeable about all their intricacies. I came to have a much better appreciation of what the GIBs had to put up with in the back.

   2007, Mike McCarthy, Phantom Reflections: The Education of an American Fighter Pilot in Vietnam, Westport, C.T.; Lonton: Praeger Security International, →ISBN, page 154

   Synonyms: backseater

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