fib

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see also: FIB

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /fɪb/

Noun

fib (plural fibs)

1. (informal) A lie#Noun_2|lie, especially one that is more or less inconsequential.

   • They are very serious; they don't tell fibs.

2. (informal, rare) A liar.

Synonyms

• (lie) See Thesaurus:lie

Translations

• French: bobard, craque
• German: Flunkerei, Schwindelei, Fabulation, Fantasiegeschichte
• Italian: menzogna, bugia, baggianata, bufala, fola, frottola, fandonia
• Portuguese: mentirinha
• Russian: вы́думка
• Spanish: milonga, patraña, trola, mentirijilla (colloquial, Spain)

Verb

fib (fibs, present participle fibbing; past and past participle fibbed)

1. (informal, intransitive) To lie, especially more or less inconsequentially.

Translations

• German: flunkern, schwindeln, fabulieren
• Italian: mentire
• Russian: привирать

Noun

fib (plural fibs)

1. (medicine, informal) The fibula.

Verb

fib (fibs, present participle fibbing; past and past participle fibbed)

1. (archaic, thieves cant, boxing) To punch, especially a series of punches in rapid succession; to beat; to hit; to strike.

Synonyms

• pummel

Noun

fib (plural fibs)

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

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FIB

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Noun

fib (plural fibs)

1. (countable, physics) Abbreviation of focused ion beam.

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