bib /bɪb/noun 9verb 3forms 3 noun9 •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. •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. — 1950 •A bibb (bibcock). •A north Atlantic fish (Trisopterus luscus), allied to the cod. •Ellipsis of bib short. verb3 •To dress (somebody) in a bib.Mel got Daniel into his chair and bibbed him up. — 2011 •(informal) To beep (e.g. a car horn). •(no longer used) To drink heartily; to tipple.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. — 1535 formsbibbed · bibbing · bibs
BIB phrase3 •(informal) Initialism of brought in by. •Initialism of bottled in bond. •Abbreviation of business is business.