gib

noun

1. A castrated male cat or ferret.
2. A male cat; a tomcat.
3. A hooked prolongation on the lower jaw of a male salmon or trout.
4. The lower lip of a horse.
5. 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.
6. (plural, usually)A piece of a fragged character, most often in first-person shooters.
7. (rare)An instance of gibbing something.

   “The object is to get the most frags(with some extra enjoyment for quality frags/gibs) […]”

8. (New-Zealand, uncountable)plasterboard.
9. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, slang)Initialism of guy in back (someone who sits in the back of a jet).

   “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.”

verb

1. To fasten in place with a gib.
2. (transitive)To destroy an in-game object so that it turns into gibs.

   “Johnny Turbo has a chainsaw leg he can use to slide around and gib enemies […]”

3. (intransitive)To be turned into gibs.

   “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.”

4. (New-Zealand)To install plasterboard.

   “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.”

5. (alt-of, pronunciation-spelling)Pronunciation spelling of give.

   “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.”

   “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.”

   “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.”

   “Please, Mars’ Gineral, do gib me dime fer snack.”

   “Don’t your mommy gib you bacoln?”

name

1. (informal)Gibraltar