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BIBB

Definition: BIBB

BIBB

Noun

1. A bibcock. See Bib, n., 3.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

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)

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Modern Usage: BIBB

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Auguste et Bibb (1897)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: BIBB

DomainTitle

Books

  • Bibb County Alabama: The First Hundred Years, 1818-1918 (reference)

  • Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave (Black Heritage Library Collection)) (reference)

  • Puttin' On Ole Massa: The Slave Narratives of Henry Bibb, William Wells Brown, and Solomon Northup (reference)

  • Shooting rats at the Bibb County Dump (reference)

  • The heritage of Bibb County, Alabama (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Consumer Goods

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: BIBB

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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.

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Usage Frequency: BIBB

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)100%3202,518

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: BIBB

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.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
BibbLast name1,0007,553
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: BIBB

Expressions using "BIBB": Bibb City Bibb County Bibb lettuce hose bibb. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: BIBB

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

leslie bibb

212

bibb county school system

4

bibb county

49

leslie bibb pic

4

bibb board county education

35

bibb county tax

4

bibb county georgia

34

assessor bibb county macon tax

4

bibb county school

26

leslie bibb naked

4

hose bibb

25

bibb county court superior

4

bibb

22

bibb county department health

4

leslie bibb nude

22

charles bibb

4

bibb county ga

18

al bibb county

4

eric bibb

15

bibb county jail

4

assessor bibb county tax

14

bibb board county education georgia

3

bibb county public school

14

bibb eric tab

3

bibb qpublic.net

12

bibb county sheriff

3

associate bibb

12

bibb county courthouse

3

bibb county alabama

10

bibb leslie wallpaper

3

bibb lettuce

9

henry bibb

3

leslie bibb popular

8

bibb breaker hose vacuum

3

leslie bibb picture

8

bibb county high school

3

bibb county government

8

bibb hose woodford

2

bibb company

7

bibb county macon

2

bibb center county enforcement law

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: BIBB

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

   

Portuguese

  

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)

   

Russian 

  

Затвор. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

bib (bibcock). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

Propp (bung, cutout, fuse, obturator, plug, spigot, stopper, stopple). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

Пробка (Cork), Кран, Засув. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: BIBB

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).

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Rhyming with "BIBB"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "BIBB" (pronounced bi"b)
3b i" bbib.
2-i" bcrib, Gib, glib, jib, kibbe, lib, Mib, nib, rib, sib.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: BIBB

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.

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Alternative Orthography: BIBB


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 49 42 42

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01001001 01000010 01000010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#73 &#66 &#66

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0049 0042 0042

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

36433636

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Photo Album
6. Usage Frequency
7. Names: Frequency
8. Expressions
9. Expressions: Internet
10. Translations: Modern
11. Derivations
12. Rhymes
13. Anagrams
14. Orthography
15. Bibliography


  

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