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Definition: Bib |
BibNoun1. Top part of an apron; covering the chest. 2. A napkin tied under the chin a child while eating. Verb1. Drink moderately but regularly. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "bib" was first used: 1580. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Bib BibTeX. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
BIB | Dutch | Bank voor Internationale Betalingen | Finance |
BIB | English | Backward indicator bit | N/A |
BIB | French | Bit indicateur vers l'arrière | Electrical Engineering |
BIB | Italian | Bit indicatore di ritorno | Electrical Engineering |
BIB | Spanish | Bit indicador hacia atrás | Electrical Engineering |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonym: BibSynonym: tipple (v). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: pouted (food & agriculture, biology & biotechnology). |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Clothing | Neckerchief, neckcloth; tie, ruff, collar, cravat, stock, handkerchief, scarf; bib, tucker; boa; cummerbund, rumal, rabat. |
Drunkenness | Verb: get drunk, be drunk; Adjective: see double; take a drop too much, take a glass too much; drink; tipple, tope, booze, bouse, guzzle, swill, soak, sot, bum, besot, have a jag on, have a buzz on, lush, bib, swig, carouse; sacrifice at the shrine of Bacchus; take to drinking; drink hard, drink deep, drink like a fish; have one's swill, drain the cup, splice the main brace, take a hair of the dog that bit you. |
Ornament | In full dress; (fashion); dressed to kill, dressed to the nines, dressed to advantage; in Sunday best, en grand tenue, en grande toilette; in best bib and tucker, endimanche. |
Ostentation | Dressed to kill, dressed to the nines, decjed out, all decked out, en granite tenue, in best bib and tucker, in Sunday best, endimanch_, chic. |
Preparation | In full feather, in best bib and tucker; in harness, at harness; in the saddle, in arms, in battle array, in war paint; up in arms; armed at all points, armed to the teeth, armed cap a pie; sword in hand; booted and spurred. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Bib |
| English words defined with "bib": bespatter, Bibb, bibbed, bibless ♦ Henfish ♦ overall ♦ Smeltie, spatter ♦ Tacaud. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "bib": Bib or Bibcock ♦ SLABBERING BIB ♦ tope. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "bib": Bibacious. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Bib" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Serbo-Croatian (bibb, bibcock). |
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Screenplays | That's not a lobster bib Eleanore its a germ protector for your tushey (Eight Crazy Nights; writing credit: Brooks Arthur; Allen Covert) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | TOPE, v. To tipple, booze, swill, soak, guzzle, lush, bib, or swig. In the individual, toping is regarded with disesteem, but toping nations are in the forefront of civilization and power. When pitted against the hard-drinking Christians the absemious Mahometans go down like grass before the scythe. In India one hundred thousand beef- eating and brandy-and-soda guzzling Britons hold in subjection two hundred and fifty million vegetarian abstainers of the same Aryan race. With what an easy grace the whisky-loving American pushed the temperate Spaniard out of his possessions! From the time when the Berserkers ravaged all the coasts of western Europe and lay drunk in every conquered port it has been the same way: everywhere the nations that drink too much are observed to fight rather well and not too righteously. Wherefore the estimable old ladies who abolished the canteen from the American army may justly boast of having materially augmented the nation's military power. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Bib" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 77.78% of the time. "Bib" is used about 81 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 (singular) | 77.78% | 63 | 42,364 |
| Unclassified Items | 12.35% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Noun (proper) | 7.41% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 2.47% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 81 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "bib": best bib and tucker ♦ hose bib ♦ in best bib and tucker ♦ in one's best bib and tucker ♦ put on one's best bib and tucker. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "bib": bib-alls, bib-and-brace, bib-and-tucker, bib-taps. | |
Ending with "bib": show-bib. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
baby bib | 399 | bib clip | 13 |
bib | 261 | bib shorts | 13 |
bib overall | 111 | bib motorcycle tank | 12 |
bib boob | 52 | personalized bib | 12 |
adult bib | 48 | bib easy | 12 |
bib tit | 39 | disposable bib | 11 |
personalized baby bib | 34 | bib towel | 11 |
bib tucker | 25 | bib noodle | 11 |
embroidered baby bib | 23 | denim bib overall | 10 |
lobster bib | 22 | bib tank | 10 |
bib apron | 21 | womens bib overall | 10 |
gmax snow bib | 21 | wholesale bib | 9 |
reima snow bib | 20 | baby bib manufacturer | 9 |
bib hose | 20 | bumkins bib | 9 |
wholesale baby bib | 20 | man bib overall | 9 |
baby bib pattern | 18 | plastic bib | 9 |
bib navy | 18 | snow bib | 8 |
bib brother | 18 | baby bjorn bib | 8 |
bib thing | 18 | advancement bib navy | 8 |
bib racing | 14 | key bib overall | 8 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "bib"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | pi pa mase, grykashkë (Dickey, dicky), grykësje, gjoks përparëseje. (various references) | |
Arabic | مريلة (apron), صدرية للطفل (dicky), الجزء الأعلى من المئزر, ثياب (clothes, raiment, togs), شرب (drain, drink, imbibe, impregnate, infuse, ingrain, inoculate, quaff, stain, steep). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | къркам (guzzle, imbibe, neck), горната част на престилка, нагръдник (dicky, front, jabot, pectoral, plastron), лигавче, пиянствувам (boose, booze, bouse, drink, drinking, soak, spree, tope), пия много (overdrink). (various references) | |
Chinese | 圍兜 , 围嘴. (various references) | |
Czech | bryndáèek, slintáèek, lacl. (various references) | |
Danish | hagesmaek (baby's bib), afloebshane (bib-cock, drain cock, drain tap). (various references) | |
Dutch | slabbetje. (various references) | |
Esperanto | salivtuketo. (various references) | |
Farsi | پیش بندبچه , نوشیدن (Imbibe), اشامیدن (Drink, Swig). (various references) | |
Finnish | ruokalappu, rintatilkku, leukalappu, kuolalappu. (various references) | |
French | bavette. (various references) | |
German | lätzchen (pinafore). (various references) | |
Greek | σαλιάρα (baby's bib, blood-striped blenny, butterfly blenny, freshwater blenny, peacock blenny, shanny, tompot blenny, triple-fin blenny), σαλιαρίστρα μωρού, βρύση (faucet, fount, fountain, tap), πίνω (drink, knock back), επάνω μέροσ ποδιάσ, είδοσ βακαλάου (halibut), τραχιλιά (opening of a shirt, scrag), τσούζω (smart, tingle). (various references) | |
Hebrew | לסבוא (drink, quaff, tipple). (various references) | |
Hungarian | partedli (feeder, nappy), tokos kemence lezáró lemeze, szakállka, mellrész (bust), melles kötény, francia tőkehal, előke (feeder, slide). (various references) | |
Italian | bavaglino (baby's bib). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 腹掛け (workman's apron), 涎掛け . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | よ れかけ, はらがけ (workman's apron). (various references) | |
Manx | soodrey (pout), paggan (nappy), brat chleeau. (various references) | |
Norwegian | smekke. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ibbay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | bebericar (sup), babadouro (dickey, pinafore, pinny), babador (dickey, napkin, pinafore, pinny), peitilho de avental, chocalho (clapper, rattle). (various references) | |
Romanian | bea zdravãn, bea (booze, carouse, consume, drink, drink to excess, finish, have a drink, imbibe, sip, swig, take, take up), bavetã, baveţicã, bãrbiţã (goatee), suge (absorb, booze, guzzle, sop, suck, suckle), partea de sus a unui şorţ. (various references) | |
Russian | нагрудник (breastplate). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | portikla (dickey, dicky), gornji deo kecelje, često piti. (various references) | |
Spanish | babero (feeder). (various references) | |
Swedish | haklapp (diaper, feeder). (various references) | |
Thai | ผ้ากันเปื้อนของเ"็ก. (various references) | |
Turkish | tulum (leather bottle, overalls, rompers, siren suit, skin, workwear), mutfak önlüğü, mama önlüğü (feeder), iş önlüğünün üst kısmı, alkolik olmak (be an alcoholic, tope), önlük (apron, dicky, overall, pinafore, pinny, school uniform, smock), çok içmek (drink a lot, drink deeply, drink heavily, liquor up, lush, soak, swill, tope). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | пити (drink, sot, tipple, water), дитячий нагрудник. (various references) | |
Welsh | llymeitian (sip, tipple), diota (booze, tipple). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Gadus luscus, Trisopterus luscus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "bib": bibasic, bibb, bibbed, bibber, bibberies, bibbers, bibbery, bibbing, bibbs, bibcock, bibcocks, bibelot, bibelots, bible, bibles, bibless, biblical, biblically, biblicism, biblicisms, biblicist, biblicists, biblike, bibliographer, bibliographers, bibliographic, bibliographical, bibliographically, bibliographies, bibliography, bibliolater, bibliolaters, bibliolatries, bibliolatrous, bibliolatry, bibliologies, bibliology, bibliomania, bibliomaniac, bibliomaniacal, bibliomaniacs, bibliomanias, bibliopegic, bibliopegies, bibliopegist, bibliopegists, bibliopegy, bibliophile, bibliophiles, bibliophilic, bibliophilies. (additional references) | |
Words containing "bib": imbibe, imbibed, imbiber, imbibers, imbibes, imbibing, imbibition, imbibitional, imbibitions, nonbibliographic, postbiblical, prebiblical, unbiblical. (additional references) | |
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"Bib" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bawb, bbb, bbi, bbm, bbw, Beab, Beb, bebb, beeb, Beiba, bhi, biba, bibe, bibi, bibio, bic, Bif, Bih, Bii, bij, bik, Bilba, bip, biq, Bisbo, Biu, biv, biw, bix, biy, bki, blbb, bobb, bpif, brb, brib, Bueb, Bvi, byb, byv, Ibby, ibf, ibw, kib, pibb, vib, zib. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "bib" (pronounced bi"b) |
| 3 | b i" b | Bibb. |
| 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-i" | |
-1 letter: bi. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-b-i" | |
+1 letter: bibb, bibs, jibb, sibb. | |
+2 letters: bibbs, bible, bilbo, bimbo, bribe, jibbs, kibbe, kibbi, rabbi, ribby, sibbs. | |
+3 letters: babied, babies, bibbed, bibber, bibles, bicarb, bilboa, bilbos, bimbos, bobbin, bribed, bribee, briber, bribes, bulbil, cabbie, dibbed, dibber, dibble, dibbuk, dobbin, dubbin, ebbing, fibbed, fibber, gibbed, gibber, gibbet, gibbon, hobbit, imbibe, jibbed, jibber, kebbie, kibbeh, kibbes, kibbis, kibble, libber, liblab, nibbed, nibble, nubbin, rabbin, rabbis, rabbit, ribbed, ribber, ribbon, robbin, skibob, tabbis. | |
| 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. | |
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