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fib

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noun/fɪb/
  1. 1

    A lie, especially one that is more or less inconsequential.informal

    • Aſk me no queſtions, and I'll tell you no fibs.
    • Wouldn’t that serve as an excuse, in Boston? I am told they are very sincere; they don't tell fibs.
  2. 2

    A liar.informalrare

    • "Oh! you dreadful fib," said Flora.
verb/fɪb/
  1. 1

    To lie, especially more or less inconsequentially.informalintransitive

noun/fɪb/
  1. 1

    The fibula.informal

verb/fɪb/
  1. 1

    To punch, especially a series of punches in rapid succession; to beat; to hit; to strike.archaic

    • Fib the cove's quarron in the rumpad for the lour in his bung; beat the fellow in the highway for the money in his purse.
    • The Chicken himself attributed this punishment to his having had the misfortune to get into Chancery early in the proceedings, when he was severely fibbed by the Larkey one, and heavily grassed.
noun/fɪb/
  1. 1

    A kind of experimental poem where the number of syllables in each line is the next succeeding Fibonacci number.neologism

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