dibs

[ UK /dˈɪbz/ ]
[ US /ˈdɪbz/ ]
NOUN
  1. a claim of rights
    I have dibs on that last slice of pizza
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How To Use dibs In A Sentence

  • She can't have first dibs; he's a person not a pet.
  • Now Silas Coombe was requesting first dibs on Horatio's books. ALL ABOUT LOVE
  • But it wasn't about rescuing an animal, it was just the way to continue the friendship, and I'm glad that Rex Petersen said I could have first dibs at TJ.
  • Smiling to herself, she gloated silently in her triumph of being the first one in the kitchen; therefore having first dibs on all of the food.
  • Shortly before she and Tony married in 2002, the home's then-owners - good friends of the couple - announced they were moving and wanted Liz and Tony to have first dibs.
  • Let the creative juices flow when you pick out your props; I call dibs on the unicorn horn.
  • They have only ever asked for the right of first refusal - that they have first dibs at renewal if they have been good tenants.
  • When I came into this House in 1990 - Labour had just been in Government for 6 years and had done nothing - a major company in Porirua went into receivership, and the Inland Revenue Department came in and had first dibs.
  • And then, how Constance would have smiled over Beatrice's ideals -- her "fluffy" evenings -- in a kind of regretful, wondering way; almost as she had smiled when she first called me "Dick," in asking what had become of our staid English reserve; as she watched the noisy crowd in Fleet Street, singing its silly doggerel about England's security and England's "dibs. The Message
  • To be honest, I'm stunned that Ned didn't call dibs first.
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