fib
IPA: fˈɪb
noun
- (informal) A lie, especially one that is more or less inconsequential.
- (informal, rare) A liar.
- (medicine, informal) The fibula.
- (neologism) A kind of experimental poem where the number of syllables in each line is the next succeeding Fibonacci number.
- (physics) Initialism of focused ion beam.
- (Wisconsin, derogatory, offensive) Initialism of fucking Illinois bastard.
verb
- (informal, intransitive) To lie, especially more or less inconsequentially.
- (archaic, thieves' cant, boxing) To punch, especially a series of punches in rapid succession; to beat; to hit; to strike.
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Examples of "fib" in Sentences
- Only, I hope he's not fibbing...
- In particular, she is unable to fib.
- The captain of the local FIB office.
- FIB information for additional processing.
- You are fibbing to push your point of view.
- Low end routers may not have a separate FIB.
- So there's been no fibbing that I'm aware of.
- If you are fibbing, then please play somewhere else.
- That doesn't look like a fib to me, at least not a typical a fib.
- This is the parameter to be installed on the FIB if that route is used.
- Euros attained 1.3008 on Friday just blipping above the 61.8 med term fib level.
- They will re-instate longs then on a break above 10750, which clears the long term fib of 10744.
- Cable faltered on the topside and came lower then for the med term fib level of 1.5069 reaching 1.5066.
- So sell into strength to these higher levels, this time leaving stops above the 75% short term fib of 1.5040.
- Oil is currently trading above its 25\% short term fib level of 4834. making a base on the short term charts.
- Would expect rallies from this point at least back to yesterdays highs of 4624 which is again one of your short term fib levels.
- * And: Ben Adler points out that O'Donnell's Oxford fib is especially ironic and amusing, because "conservatives and Republicans are famously suspicious of educational credentials and disdainful of cultural (as opposed to economic) elites."
- I thought of all the evil deeds of my short life – of pinching Felix to make him cry out at family prayers, of playing truant from Sunday School and going fishing one day, of a certain fib – no, no away from this awful hour with all such euphonious evasions – of a lie I had once told, of many a selfish and unkind word and thought and action.
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