Definition of "bib"

bib¹

/bɪb/

noun
plural bibs
1. An item of clothing for people (especially babies) tied around their neck to protect their clothes from getting dirty when eating.
2. Similar items of clothing such as the Chinese dudou and Vietnamese yem.
3. (sports) A rectangular piece of material, carrying a bib number, worn as identification by entrants in a race.
4. (sports) A colourful polyester or plastic vest worn over one's clothes, usually to mark one's team during group activities.
5. The upper part of an apron or overalls.
6. (cycling) Ellipsis of bib short.
7. A patch of colour around an animal's upper breast and throat.
  Quotations
  In summer the whole throat and breast are black, but in winter plumage the throat is white bounded by a horseshoe-shaped black bib.
  1950, Arthur Cleveland Bent, Life Histories of North American Wagtails, Shrikes, Vireos, and their Allies
  He don't look anything like the captain. This here cat has got a nice thick black coat of fur with a nice white bib and white feet.
  2011, Arthur Peacock, Gettysburg the Cat, page 22
8. A north Atlantic fish (Trisopterus luscus), allied to the cod.
9. A bibb (bibcock).
verb
third-person singular simple present bibs, present participle bibbing, simple past and past participle bibbed
1. (transitive) To dress (somebody) in a bib.
  Quotations
  Wise women use them, but new fathers seldom seem to understand that one minute bibbing baby saves who knows how long swabbing, finding clean clothes, changing, and coddling later — not to mention laundry time.
  1990, Don Aslett, Don Aslett's Stain-buster's Bible: The Complete Guide to Spot Removal
  Mel got Daniel into his chair and bibbed him up.
  2011, Dawn Atkins, The Baby Connection, page 101
2. (intransitive, archaic) To drink heartily; to tipple.
  Quotations
  Iff I were a fleſhly felowe, and a preacher of lyes and tolde them that they might ſyt bebbinge and bollynge, and be droncken: O that were a prophet for this people.
  1535 October 14 (Gregorian calendar), Myles Coverdale, transl., Biblia: The Byble, […] (Coverdale Bible), [Cologne or Marburg: Eucharius Cervicornus and J. Soter?], Micheas [Micah] ij:, folio xcij, verso, column 2
  they gave him drink as often as he cry'd; so that he was constantly bibbing
  1693, [John Locke], “§18”, in Some Thoughts Concerning Education, London: […] A[wnsham] and J[ohn] Churchill, […]

bib²

/bɪb/

verb
third-person singular simple present bibs, present participle bibbing, simple past and past participle bibbed
1. (informal) To beep (e.g. a car horn).

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