gib

Unknown (18th century). Perhaps abbreviated from Gilbert, the name of the cat in the old story of Reynard the Fox, in the Romaunt of the Rose, etc.

• IPA^(key): /ɡɪb/
• UK sometimes also IPA^(key): /dʒɪb/

gib (plural gibs)

1. A bolt or wedge made from wood or metal used for holding a machine part in place.
2. A castrated male cat or ferret.
3. A male cat; a tomcat.
4. A hooked prolongation on the lower jaw of a male salmon or trout.

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

1. To fasten in place with a gib.

Shortened from giblet.

gib (plural gibs)

1. (video games) Miscellaneous pieces of a fragged character, most often in first-person shooters.

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

1. (transitive, video games) To blast an enemy or opponent into gibs.

From the trademark GIB, registered by Fletcher Building Holdings Limited, the major brand of plasterboard in New Zealand.

• (General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /dʒɘb/

gib (uncountable)

1. (New Zealand) plasterboard.

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

1. (New Zealand) To install plasterboard.
   • 2014 October 4, Chris Hutching, “An earthquake repair story from the south”, in NBR:

     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.

• BIG, GBI, big

• IPA^(key): /ɡiːp/ (chiefly in formal speech)
• IPA^(key): /ɡɪp/ (overall more common)

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gib

1. Imperative singular of geben.
2. (colloquial) First-person singular present of geben.

• gibaj

• IPA^(key): /ɡʲip/

gib

1. second-person singular imperative of gibaś

• IPA^(key): /ɡʲip/

gib

1. second-person singular imperative of gibać

From Proto-Slavic *gybъ.

• IPA^(key): /ɡîːb/

gȋb m (Cyrillic spelling ги̑б)

1. movement (of body or a body part)
2. fold
3. joint

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