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Definition: BIBB |
BIBBNoun1. A bibcock. See Bib, n., 3. |
Date "BIBB" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1960. (references) |
Crosswords: BIBB |
| English words defined with "BIBB": Bibb lettuce. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "BIBB": hose bibb. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Auguste et Bibb (1897) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Books |
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Consumer Goods | |||
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![]() | United States Coast Survey Steamer BIBB at Dry Tortugas, Florida. At this time, the BIBB was engaged in conducting dredging work south of the Florida Keys under the direction of Louis F. de Pourtales who discovered life below 300 fathoms.Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. | ![]() | Photostat reproduction of a chart of the approaches to Charleston, South Carolina, detailing the locations of the wrecks of U.S. Navy ships Weehawken, Keokuk, Patapsco and Housatonic; the wreck of CSS Georgiana; where USS New Ironsides, Bibb and USS Massachusetts encountered Confederate "torpedoes" on 7 April 1863, 16 March 1865 and 19 March 1865; and the location of other "torpedoes".Credit: NAVY. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| "BIBB" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "BIBB" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 100% | 3 | 202,518 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "BIBB" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Bibb | Last name | 1,000 | 7,553 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "BIBB": Bibb City ♦ Bibb County ♦ Bibb lettuce ♦ hose bibb. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "BIBB"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | Tapë (bung, bunghole, Cork, Corky, float, gag, obturator, pickled, plug, rabbit, spigot, stopper, stopple, tap, wad). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | Кран, Запушалка (Cork). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | robinet d'arrosage (hose bib, hose bibb). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ibbbay Tampo Da Escotilha (hatch), Escotilha (companion, hatch, hatchway, panel, port), Comporta (clow, flood gate, flooding, gate, hatch, hydraulic gate, lock, lock gate, penstock, shutter, sluice, sluicegate, stopper, tide-gate, water gate). (various references) Затвор. (various references) bib (bibcock). (various references) Propp (bung, cutout, fuse, obturator, plug, spigot, stopper, stopple). (various references) Пробка (Cork), Кран, Засув. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "BIBB": bibbed, bibber, bibberies, bibbers, bibbery, bibbing, bibbs. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "BIBB" (pronounced bi"b) |
| 3 | b i" b | bib. |
| 2 | -i" b | crib, Gib, glib, jib, kibbe, lib, Mib, nib, rib, sib. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-b-b-i" | |
-1 letter: bib. | |
-2 letters: bi. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-b-b-i" | |
+1 letter: bibbs. | |
+2 letters: bibbed, bibber, bobbin. | |
+3 letters: babbitt, bibbers, bibbery, bibbing, bobbies, bobbing, bobbins, bubbies. | |
+4 letters: babbitts, babbling, blabbing, blobbing, blubbing, bobbinet, bobbling, bribable, bubblier, bubblies, bubbling. | |
+5 letters: babbitted, babblings, bibberies, bobberies, bobbinets, brabbling, bubbliest, skibobber. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 49 42 42 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... .. -... -... |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01001001 01000010 01000010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B I B B |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0049 0042 0042 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)36433636 |
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