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Meaning of Gib | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2 Specialized
ɡɪb

Definitions

  1. 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.
  2. A piece of a fragged character, most often in first-person shooters.
  3. plasterboard.
    New-Zealand, uncountable
  4. Initialism of guy in back (someone who sits in the back of a jet).
  5. Gibraltar
  6. A castrated male cat or ferret.
  7. An instance of gibbing something.
  8. A male cat; a tomcat.
  9. A hooked prolongation on the lower jaw of a male salmon or trout.
  10. The lower lip of a horse.

Equivalents

العربية غب
Български чивия
Bosanski Maček
Čeština maček
Hrvatski Maček
Српски Maček

Examples

“The object is to get the most frags(with some extra enjoyment for quality frags/gibs) […]”
“You undoubtedly know that each F-4 Phantom jet carried two pilots in separate, tandem cockpits. Major Dennis Harper was the frontseater and was the AC or Aircraft Commander. Jim was the backseater or the GIB.”
“When I originally checked out in the airplane, we got a few orientation rides in the backseat to familiarize us with the systems, but I was not very knowledgeable about all their intricacies. I came to have a much better appreciation of what the GIBs had to put up with in the back.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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