gib

Noun (1)

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.

Noun (2)

IPA/d͡ʒɪb/

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

Verb (1)

IPA/d͡ʒɪb/

gib (third-person singular simple present gibs, present participle gibbing, simple past and past participle gibbed)

1. To fasten in place with a gib.

Noun (3)

IPA/d͡ʒɪb/

gib (plural gibs)

1. (plural, usually) A piece of a fragged character, most often in first-person shooters.
2. (rare) An 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)

Verb (2)

IPA/d͡ʒɪb/

gib (third-person singular simple present gibs, present participle gibbing, simple past and past participle gibbed)

1. (transitive) To 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. (intransitive) To 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

Noun (4)

New Zealand/dʒɘb/

gib (uncountable)

1. (New Zealand) plasterboard.

Verb (3)

New Zealand/dʒɘb/

gib (third-person singular simple present gibs, present participle gibbing, simple past and past participle gibbed)

1. (New Zealand) To 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

Verb (4)

gib

1. To give.
   • 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

Noun (5)

gib (plural gibs)

1. A benefit or handout.

Noun (6) capitalized: GIB

GIB (plural GIBs)

1. (abbreviation, initialism, slang) Initialism 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
   • 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

Proper noun capitalized: Gib

Gib

1. (informal) Gibraltar