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bib noun [ bɪb ]

• a piece of cloth or plastic fastened round a child's neck to keep its clothes clean while eating.
• a common European inshore fish of the cod family.
Origin: late 16th century: probably from bib2.

bib verb

• drink (something alcoholic).
• "after a considerable amount of wine-bibbing, I settled down"
Origin: late Middle English: probably from Latin bibere ‘to drink’.

one's best bib and tucker

• one's smartest clothes.

stick one's bib in

• interfere.



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