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fibs

fibs is the plural of fib.

fibs is the third-person singular simple present indicative of fib.

Meaning of fib

Noun (1)

fib (plural fibs)

  1. (informal) A lie, especially one that is more or less inconsequential.
    • Aſk me no queſtions, and I'll tell you no fibs.1773, [Oliver] Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer: Or, The Mistakes of a Night. A Comedy. […], London: […] F[rancis] Newbery, […], →OCLC, Act III, page 51
  2. (informal, rare) A liar.
    • "Oh! you dreadful fib," said Flora.1861, Henry Kingsley, Ravenshoe

Noun (2)

fib (plural fibs)

  1. (informal) The fibula.

Noun (3)

fib (plural fibs)

  1. (neologism) A kind of experimental poem where the number of syllables in each line is the next succeeding Fibonacci number.

See all 6 meanings of fib

Noun capitalized: FIBs

FIBs

  1. (plural) plural of FIB

Questions about fibs

What is fibs the plural of?
Fibs is the plural of fib.
What part of speech is fibs?
Fibs is a noun.

Words near fibs in the dictionary

  1. fibroxanthoma
  2. fibroxanthomas
  3. fibroxanthomata
  4. fibroxantoma
  5. fibry
  6. fibs
  7. fibster
  8. fibsters
  9. FIBUA
  10. fibula
  11. fibulae

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fibs (page history and authors); FIBs (page history and authors); fib (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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