What does "gib" mean?
A castrated male cat or ferret.
Gib
/ɡɪb/ name, noun, verb, slang
name, noun, verb, slang ·Common ·High school level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: A castrated male cat or ferret.
- Grammar: gib is listed as name, noun, verb, slang.
- Nearest alternatives: block, cat, feline, g.
- Useful contrasts: backlash, play.
- Usage evidence: The object is to get the most frags(with some extra enjoyment for quality frags/gibs) […]
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 A castrated male cat or ferret.
- 2 A strip, wedge, or bolt made from metal or wood and used for holding a machine part in place; usually with features (such as a taper and/or set screws) that allow for fine adjustment of the part's position.
- 3 A piece of a fragged character, most often in first-person shooters. plural, usually
- 4 plasterboard. New-Zealand, uncountable
- 5 Initialism of guy in back (someone who sits in the back of a jet). abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, slang
"You undoubtedly know that each F-4 Phantom jet carried two pilots in separate, tandem cockpits. Major Dennis Harper was the frontseater and was the AC or Aircraft Commander. Jim was the backseater or the GIB."
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- 6 a castrated tomcat wordnet
- 7 A male cat; a tomcat.
- 8 An instance of gibbing something. rare
"The object is to get the most frags(with some extra enjoyment for quality frags/gibs) […]"
- 9 a unit of information equal to 1024 mebibytes or 2^30 (1,073,741,824) bytes wordnet
- 10 A hooked prolongation on the lower jaw of a male salmon or trout.
- 11 The lower lip of a horse.
Verb
- 1 To fasten in place with a gib.
- 2 To destroy an in-game object so that it turns into gibs. transitive
"Johnny Turbo has a chainsaw leg he can use to slide around and gib enemies […]"
- 3 To install plasterboard. New-Zealand
"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."
- 4 Pronunciation spelling of give. alt-of, pronunciation-spelling
"Only gib me some few shingles an’ a flo’, an’ dar yer hev jes ez good a church ez de ’postles ebber hed ter preach in."
- 5 To be turned into gibs. intransitive
"Weapons like the Devastator and other explosives make enemies gib into a bloody gore, while the auto shotgun can easily mow down hordes of, well, anything."
Proper Noun
- 1 Gibraltar informal
Example
"The object is to get the most frags(with some extra enjoyment for quality frags/gibs) […]"
Common questions
What is a synonym for "gib"?
Common synonyms include: block, cat, feline, g, gb, gibibyte.
How do you use "gib" in a sentence?
The object is to get the most frags(with some extra enjoyment for quality frags/gibs) […]
How do you pronounce "gib"?
Pronounced /ɡɪb/.
Etymology
Etymology 1
Unknown (14th century). Perhaps abbreviated from Gilbert, the name of the cat in the medieval fables of Reynard the Fox, Romaunt of the Rose, and so on.
Etymology 2
Unknown (late 18th century).
Etymology 3
Shortened from giblet.
Etymology 4
From the trademark GIB, registered by Fletcher Building Holdings Limited, the major brand of plasterboard in New Zealand.