Meanings
mib1
plural mibs
- gamesA marble (glass ball used in games), especially one used as a target.
He focused on the mib on the edge of the group inside the circle. The blue one was his favourite and he had it right where he wanted it.
2011, Sean Kelly, “At the Crossroads: A Teacher's Journey to Understanding Classroom Conflict”, in Peter Gouzouasis, editor, Pedagogy in a New Tonality, page 362 more examples
On my first shot of the last game, I hit two mibs, my shooter and one marble exiting the ring, but leaving a snooger, which is a “commie rat” target marble near the rim of the ring.
2002, Norah L. Lewis, Freedom to Play: We Made Our Own Fun, page 114Thirteen five-eighths-inch marbles (“mibs”) are set in a cross in the center. Each mib should be three inches from its neighboring mib. Each player shoots with a “shooter,” a marble that's one-half to three-quarter inches in diameter.
2002 May, Sean McCollum, “For All the Marbles”, in Boys' Life, page 28
MIB2
plural MIBs
- USabbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableconspiracy theoristshuman sciencesInitialism of man in black.
- USabbreviationcountablein pluralinitialismuncountableconspiracy theoristshuman sciencesInitialism of men in black.
- abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountablechemistryInitialism of methylisoborneol.
- initialismnot comparablemint in box
Mib3
- abbreviationcomputingAbbreviation of Mibit.
Synonyms & antonyms
nouna unit of information equal to 1024 kibibytes or 2^20 (1,048,576) bytes
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Origin
Perhaps a corruption of marble.
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Cite this entry
mib. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mib
“mib.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mib. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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