mib
English
Etymology
Perhaps a corruption of marble.
Noun
mib (plural mibs)
- (games) A marble (glass ball used in games), especially one used as a target.
- 2002, Norah L. Lewis, Freedom to Play: We Made Our Own Fun, page 114,
- On my first shot of the last game, I hit two mibs, my shooter and one marble exiting the ring, but leaving a snooger, which is a “commie rat” target marble near the rim of the ring.
- 2002 May, Sean McCollum, For All the Marbles, Boys' Life, page 28,
- Thirteen five-eighths-inch marbles (“mibs”) are set in a cross in the center. Each mib should be three inches from its neighboring mib. Each player shoots with a “shooter,” a marble that's one-half to three-quarter inches in diameter.
- 2011, Sean Kelly, At the Crossroads: A Teacher's Journey to Understanding Classroom Conflict, Peter Gouzouasis (editor), Pedagogy in a New Tonality, page 36,
- He focused on the mib on the edge of the group inside the circle. The blue one was his favourite and he had it right where he wanted it.
- 2002, Norah L. Lewis, Freedom to Play: We Made Our Own Fun, page 114,
- (in the plural) A game of marbles.
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