# gib
## English
### Etymology 1

Unknown (14th century). Perhaps abbreviated from Gilbert, the name of the cat in the medieval fables of Reynard the Fox, Romaunt of the Rose, and so on.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡɪb/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* UK sometimes also IPA: /d͡ʒɪb/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɪb

#### Noun

gib (plural gibs)
* A castrated male cat or ferret.
* A male cat; a tomcat.
* A hooked prolongation on the lower jaw of a male salmon or trout.
* The lower lip of a horse.

##### Derived terms

* gib-cat

### Etymology 2

Unknown (late 18th century).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /d͡ʒɪb/ or IPA: /ɡɪb/ (both are common)

#### Noun

gib (plural gibs)
* A strip, wedge, or bolt made from metal or wood and used for holding a machine part in place; usually with features (such as a taper and/or set screws) that allow for fine adjustment of the part's position.

##### Translations
#### Verb

gib (third-person singular simple present gibs, present participle gibbing, simple past and past participle gibbed)
* To fasten in place with a gib.

### Etymology 3

Shortened from giblet.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /d͡ʒɪb/
* Rhymes: -ɪb

#### Noun

gib (plural gibs)
* (video games) Miscellaneous pieces of a fragged character, most often in first-person shooters.

#### Verb

gib (third-person singular simple present gibs, present participle gibbing, simple past and past participle gibbed)
* (transitive, video games) To destroy an in-game object so that it turns into gibs.
** 2023 August 10, Austin Suther, “Turbo Overkill Review - Become Chainsaw Man”, in TechRaptor‎:Johnny Turbo has a chainsaw leg he can use to slide around and gib enemies […]
* (intransitive, video games) To be turned into gibs.
** 2020 September 24, Antal Bokor, “Review: Over the Top Serious Sam 4 Is More of What you Want”, in Third Coast Review‎:Weapons like the Devastator and other explosives make enemies gib into a bloody gore, while the auto shotgun can easily mow down hordes of, well, anything.

##### Derived terms

* gibber
* instagib

### Etymology 4

From the trademark GIB, registered by Fletcher Building Holdings Limited, the major brand of plasterboard in New Zealand.

#### Pronunciation

* (New Zealand) IPA: /dʒɘb/
* Rhymes: -ɘb

#### Noun

gib (uncountable)
* (New Zealand) plasterboard.

#### Verb

gib (third-person singular simple present gibs, present participle gibbing, simple past and past participle gibbed)
* (New Zealand) To install plasterboard.
** 2014 October 4, Chris Hutching, “An earthquake repair story from the south”, in NBR:As the wallpaper stripping progresses the damage to walls becomes more apparent. It may require more variation orders for gibbing of walls as well as ceilings.

### Etymology 5
#### Verb

gib
* Pronunciation spelling of give.
** 1880, Albion W. Tourgee, “Red Wing”, in Bricks Without Straw, New York, N.Y.: Fords, Howard, & Hulbert; London: Sampson Low & Co.; Montreal, Que.: Dawson Bros., page 87:Only gib me some few shingles an’ a flo’, an’ dar yer hev jes ez good a church ez de ’postles ebber hed ter preach in.
** 1896, Opie Read, chapter VIII, in The Jucklins, Chicago, Ill.: Laird & Lee, pages 105 and 107:I has gib you licker an’ I has gib you music, an’ wife, dar, is cookin’ supper fur you, an’ it ain’ no mo’ den reason dat I’d wanter know whut we gwine git fur it. […] “Yo’ supper is done an’ ef you’ll jest gib me room I’ll fix de table,” the woman remarked, taking the bread off the griddle.
** 1902, John Kendrick Bangs, Bikey the Skicycle & Other Tales of Jimmieboy, New York, N.Y.: Riggs Publishing Company, page 181:De kindest heartedest little boy in de worl’ would forget to gib his cat its dinner if he had a new toy to play wid, or a new suit o’ party dress to put on to show his poppy when he come home.
** 1938, Hervey Allen, Action at Aquila, New York, N.Y.: Farrar & Rinehart, page 98:Please, Mars’ Gineral, do gib me dime fer snack.
** 1988, Lynda Barry, The Good Times Are Killing Me, published 2020, →ISBN:Don’t your mommy gib you bacoln?
** 2002 July, Patricia Sprinkle, Who Invited the Dead Man?, Signet, →ISBN:“My daddy doesn’t gib me guns, ’cause he doesn’t like dem. But Pop will gib me one when I gets ten.”
** 2007, Victoria Pade, A Family for the Holidays, Silhouette Books, →ISBN, page 12:“Maybe you could jus’ gib me one, then,” she suggested sweetly.
** 2021 March, Srashti Behure, Unconditional: Pets Over Peeps, Spectrum of Thoughts (an affiliate of FanatiXx), →ISBN:Hooman you is nice, / You gib me bath so I no hab lice.
** 2022 February 8, Sohini Sengupta, “Dogs react to human freezing their favourite toys. Watch hilarious video”, in Hindustan Times‎:“Gib us our toy bacc!” reads the caption accompanying this dog video [by @lifewithkleekai].
** 2022 February 10, Steve Rouge, “The Cutest Puppies of the Day”, in Medium‎:“I be model for fotos, now you gib treats”

### See also

* gnaB giB

### Anagrams

* IGB, BIG, big, GBI

## Afar
### Etymology

From Arabic جَيْب (jayb).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡib/ [ɡɪb]
* Hyphenation: gib

### Noun

gib m (plural giibitté f or gibwá f)
* pocket

#### References

* Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎, Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

## German
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡiːp/ (chiefly in formal speech)
* IPA: /ɡɪp/ (overall more common)
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -iːp, -ɪp

### Verb

gib
* singular imperative of geben
* (colloquial) first-person singular present of geben

## Lower Sorbian
### Alternative forms

* gibaj

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡʲip/

### Verb

gib
* second-person singular imperative of gibaś

## Polish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɡip/
* Rhymes: -ip
* Syllabification: gib

### Verb

gib
* second-person singular imperative of gibać

## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *gybъ.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡîːb/

### Noun

gȋb m (Cyrillic spelling ги̑б)
* movement (of body or a body part)
* fold
* joint

#### Declension
### References

* “gib”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

## Sumerian
### Romanization

gib
* Romanization of 𒄃 (gib)