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tib out

tib out verb: to play truant.

Verb

tib out (third-person singular simple present tibs out, present participle tibbing out, simple past and past participle tibbed out)

  1. (UK, obsolete, slang, Charterhouse School) To play truant.
    • […] "tibbed out" once for a day's fishing on the Lea […]1921, Gerald Stanley Davies, Charterhouse in London: Monastery, Mansion, Hospital, School, page 270

Forms of tib out

third-person singular presenttibs out
present participletibbing out
past participletibbed out
pasttibbed out

Questions about tib out

What does tib out mean?
Tib out means to play truant.
What part of speech is tib out?
Tib out is a verb.
What is the past tense of tib out?
The past tense of tib out is tibbed out.

Words near tib out in the dictionary

  1. tiazesim
  2. tiazofurin
  3. tiazofurine
  4. tiazuril
  5. tib
  6. tib out
  7. Tib's Eve
  8. Tibag
  9. Tibagan
  10. Tibao
  11. Tibat

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