Definitions for gibs

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gibs gib

Spelling: [gib]

IPA: /gɪb/

Gibs is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 21 anagrams from letters in gibs (bgis).

Definitions for gibs

noun

1. a hooked prolongation that develops during the spawning season on the lower jaw of a male salmon or trout.
2. Machinery. a thin, wedgelike strip of metal for controlling the area in which a moving part, as the table of a milling machine, slides. a keylike part having a head at each end, used with a matching cotter as a fastening.
3. (in carpentry or ironwork) a heavy metal strap for fastening two members together.
4. a cat, especially a male cat.
5. a castrated cat.

verb (used with object)

1. to fasten (parts) together by means of a gib.

Origin of gibs

First recorded in 1555-65; origin uncertain

Examples for gibs

"I tink I'd better bleed him and gib him a dose ob calomel," returned Sam.

He got a bundle an' he say he got strict d'rections to gib it to missy.

Den he say, ‘Moonshine, gib me one glass grog, den I hab courage.’

In Glenkindie, 'gib, his man,' is the vile betrayer of the noble harper and his lady.

But gib was never seen in the neighbourhood of Bensington again.

He laugh, and say dat he believe my story, and dat he gib me a trial.

Why did they sit back and let them grow as they pleased, gib?

"I s'pose ye're goin' to gib it up now, boss," said the captain.

De second year my business not good, and I only gib five dollars.

It certainly was not too much to say that gib was another creature.