dyb

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/dɪb/

verb

In the scouting movement, to chant dyb, meaning "do your best" (to follow the scouting laws).

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Meanings

verbdyb (third-person singular simple present dybs, present participle dybbing, simple past and past participle dybbed)

present singular third person dybs · participle present dybbing · participle past dybbed · past dybbed · alternative dib

  1. humorousintransitivesometimesscoutingIn the scouting movement, to chant dyb, meaning "do your best" (to follow the scouting laws).

    Why were there 212 fatalities at the first boy scout camp? There wasn't much dybbing and dobbing at Robert Baden-Powell's first scout camp as the camp in question was in Mafeking and took place during a particularly nasty siege[…]

    2009, Justin Pollard, The Interesting Bits

Origin

Short for do your best. dyb (or dib) and dob were used as abbreviated forms of do your best and do our best in certain Scout chants.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with dyb

libcribribnibbibglibtribsibjibbibbgibHibtibsquibchibBzybcut of one's jibdribprime ribsnibspareribvib.
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Sounds the same

dib

Anagrams

BYD
Cite this entry
APA

dyb. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dyb

MLA

“dyb.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dyb. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “dyb,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dyb.

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