bib

An item of clothing for people (especially babies) tied around their neck to protect their clothes from getting dirty when eating.

Similar items of clothing such as the Chinese dudou and Vietnamese yem.

A rectangular piece of material, carrying a bib number, worn as identification by competitors.

A colourful polyester or plastic vest worn over one's clothes, usually to mark one's team during group activities.

The upper part of an apron or overalls.

Ellipsis of bib short.abbreviationalt-ofellipsis

A patch of colour around an animal's upper breast and throat.

• In summer the whole throat and breast are black, but in winter plumage the throat is white bounded by a horseshoe-shaped black bib.
• He don't look anything like the captain. This here cat has got a nice thick black coat of fur with a nice white bib and white feet.

A north Atlantic fish (Trisopterus luscus), allied to the cod.

A bibb (bibcock).

To dress (somebody) in a bib.transitive

• Wise women use them, but new fathers seldom seem to understand that one minute bibbing baby saves who knows how long swabbing, finding clean clothes, changing, and coddling later — not to mention laundry time.
• Mel got Daniel into his chair and bibbed him up.

To drink heartily; to tipple.archaicintransitive

• Iff I were a fleſhly felowe, and a preacher of lyes and tolde them that they might ſyt bebbinge and bollynge, and be droncken: O that were a prophet for this people.
• they gave him drink as often as he cry'd; so that he was constantly bibbing

To beep (e.g. a car horn).informal