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Webster 1913 Edition
Bib
Bib
,Noun.
[From
Bib
, v., because the bib
receives the drink that the child slavers from the mouth.] 1.
A small piece of cloth worn by children over the breast, to protect the clothes.
2.
(Zool.)
An arctic fish (
Gadus luscus
), allied to the cod; – called also pout
and whiting pout
. 3.
A bibcock.
Bib
,Verb.
I.
To drink; to sip; to tipple.
He was constantly
bibbing
. Locke.
Webster 1828 Edition
Bib
BIB
,Noun.
1.
A fish about a foot in length, the back of a light olive, the sides yellow, and the belly white.Definition 2024
bib
bib
English
A baby bib
A baby wearing a bib while being fed
The bib of an apron
A runner wearing a bib with the number 0798
Football players wearing red bibs during a match
Noun
bib (plural bibs)
- An item of clothing for babies tied around their neck to protect their clothes from getting dirty when eating.
- Similar items of clothing such as the Chinese dudou and Vietnamese yem.
- (sports) A rectangular piece of material, carrying a bib number, worn as identification by entrants in a race
- (sports) A colourful polyester or plastic vest worn over one's clothes, usually to mark one's team during group activities.
- The upper part of an apron or overalls.
- A patch of colour around an animal's upper breast and throat.
- 1950, Arthur Cleveland Bent, Life Histories of North American Wagtails, Shrikes, Vireos, and their Allies
- In summer the whole throat and breast are black, but in winter plumage the throat is white bounded by a horseshoe-shaped black bib.
- 2011, Arthur Peacock, Gettysburg the Cat (page 22)
- He don't look anything like the captain. This here cat has got a nice thick black coat of fur with a nice white bib and white feet.
- 1950, Arthur Cleveland Bent, Life Histories of North American Wagtails, Shrikes, Vireos, and their Allies
- A north Atlantic fish (Trisopterus luscus), allied to the cod; the pouting.
- A bibcock.
Derived terms
Translations
item of clothing for babies
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sports: colourful vest
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upper part of an apron or overalls
patch of colour around an animal's upper breast and throat
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Trisopterus luscus — see pouting
bibcock — see bibcock
Verb
bib (third-person singular simple present bibs, present participle bibbing, simple past and past participle bibbed)
- (archaic) To drink heartily; to tipple.
- He was constantly bibbing. — Locke.
to drink heavily — see tipple