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Gib

//ɡɪb// name, noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Gibraltar informal
Noun
  1. 1
    A castrated male cat or ferret.
  2. 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. 3
    A piece of a fragged character, most often in first-person shooters. plural, usually
  4. 4
    plasterboard. New-Zealand, uncountable
  5. 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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  1. 6
    a castrated tomcat wordnet
  2. 7
    A male cat; a tomcat.
  3. 8
    An instance of gibbing something. rare

    "The object is to get the most frags(with some extra enjoyment for quality frags/gibs) […]"

  4. 9
    a unit of information equal to 1024 mebibytes or 2^30 (1,073,741,824) bytes wordnet
  5. 10
    A hooked prolongation on the lower jaw of a male salmon or trout.
  6. 11
    The lower lip of a horse.
Verb
  1. 1
    To fasten in place with a gib.
  2. 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. 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. 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. 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."

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

Unknown (late 18th century).

Etymology 4

Shortened from giblet.

Etymology 5

Shortened from giblet.

Etymology 6

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

Etymology 7

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

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