Definitions for jibe

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Spelling: [jahyb]

IPA: /dʒaɪb/

Jibe is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 15 anagrams from letters in jibe (beij).

Definitions for jibe

noun

1. the act of jibing.
2. a taunting or sarcastic remark.

verb (used with object)

1. to cause to jibe.
2. to taunt; deride.

verb (used without object)

1. to shift from one side to the other when running before the wind, as a fore-and-aft sail or its boom.
2. to alter course so that a fore-and-aft sail shifts in this manner.
3. to be in harmony or accord; agree:
4. to utter mocking or scoffing words; jeer.

verb (used with or without object)

1. gibe1 .

Origin of jibe

1685-95; variant of gybe Dutch gijben, more commonly gijpen

Examples for jibe

This jibe comes after ads in which Davis attacked the paralyzed Abbot for not caring about other wheelchair-bound Texans.

Ease up main and jib-sheets, boys, and stand clear for a jibe.

Nor does it jibe with Habayit Hayehudi's long-standing preference to harness the Housing Ministry for settlement building.

Featherstone felt the jibe, but he was furious at the intrusion.

But when that clinical research does not jibe with AHA dogma, it is ignored.

It was mean of me—yes, I must say it—it was mean of me to jibe you.

The jibe is off-key too because Wilde himself was hardly immune to the sentimental and even the mawkish.

He bowed his head in a misery so abject that Mata forbore to jibe.

Gee whiz, Commodore, if you jibe over like that you'll go by the board.

This factor seems to jibe with our overall rankings more than any other component.