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Bib   /bɪb/   Listen
noun
Bib  n.  
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.


verb
Bibbe, Bib  v. t.  To drink; to tipple. (Obs.) "This miller hath... bibbed ale."


Bib  v. i.  To drink; to sip; to tipple. "He was constantly bibbing."





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"Bib" Quotes from Famous Books



... probably 'Arab Salim, fourteen miles southeast of Sidon, on the highest part of the mountains. It stands on a precipice 400 feet above the gorge of the Zahrany River (Robinson, "Later Bib. Res.," p. 47), ...
— Egyptian Literature
... to take a hand. Won't you have a bib and dip in, too? ... Children, this is your uncle—cousin. Which is ...
— Together • Robert Herrick (1868-1938)
... much he is apt to wet any little bib he may wear and take cold by having damp clothing next to his throat and chest. Cut a piece of material now made (Linite, by Johnson & Johnson) in the shape of a bib, and bind with tape. This can be worn ...
— Mother's Remedies - Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers - of the United States and Canada • T. J. Ritter
... could not see anything so clearly there. It is back here in my own place the visions come, in the place where shining people used to laugh around me and I a little lad in a bib. ...
— The Unicorn from the Stars and Other Plays • William B. Yeats
... Mirdites did not come to take the oath of fealty, he replied that when he was allowed to return from exile to Mirdita, he promised that he would concern himself solely with spiritual affairs, and was therefore powerless; that the only head the Mirdites recognized was Prenk Bib Doda, their chief, who was unfortunately in exile still at Constantinople. He alone could put matters right. It was an astute move. The Young Turks at once ...
— Twenty Years Of Balkan Tangle • Durham M. Edith


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