Meaning of dyb | Babel Free

Definitions

In the scouting movement, to chant dyb, meaning "do your best" (to follow the scouting laws).

humorous, intransitive, sometimes

Examples

“I used to get⟳ through the dibbing and dobbing all right but during the howling I usually rolled over backwards.”

“'I'm a scout,' she smiled at him. The boy, in his turn⟳, stared at Sam. He'd heard somewhere that scouting had got more trendy lately, that it was more snowboarding and surfing than dib-dib-dibbing and doing old ladies' gardens.”

“Why were there 212 fatalities at the first boy scout camp? There wasn't much dybbing and dobbing at Robert Baden-Powell's first scout camp as the camp in question⟳ was in Mafeking and took place⟳ during a particularly nasty siege[…]”

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