[
US
/ˈdʒaɪb/
]
VERB
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be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics
The handwriting checks with the signature on the check
The two stories don't agree in many details
The suspect's fingerprints don't match those on the gun -
laugh at with contempt and derision
The crowd jeered at the speaker
NOUN
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an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect
she threw shafts of sarcasm
she takes a dig at me every chance she gets
his parting shot was `drop dead'
How To Use gibe In A Sentence
- He has been called everything from Fenty's godfather to 'consigliere' to 'vice mayor,' a gibe that he is the Richard B. Cheney to Fenty's George W. Bush. DeMorning DeBonis: Sept. 10, 2010
- But he always took such gibes with good humour. Times, Sunday Times
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- It is all very well for Tariq Ali to gibe at India's neo-liberal economics, but this, alas, is the only show in town.
- I've heard higher flights of oratory, funnier jokes, crueller gibes at opponents, cannier attempts to win applause. Times, Sunday Times
- Now a gaffe by the Highways Agency and the county council has left Lancastrians open to gibes from their Yorkshire neighbours.
- Of this character, she gibes further: ‘He takes Viagra.’
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- Today one can easily gibe at the show's glaring seams and stitches.