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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
gibe .
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Examples
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They all laughed, and as she and Claybrook made their way to the elevator, the Thompsons stood in the hall calling gibes and parting injunctions after them.
Stubble George Looms 1906
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He continued to shout it over and over, roaring with mocking laughter; his men nudging each other, sniggering and grinning and calling gibes across the fire.
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I smiled to myself as I contemplated the unconscious nape of that neck and recalled the gibes of the commercial traveller and the uncomfortable stare of the man in the corner.
Boycotted And Other Stories Talbot Baines Reed 1872
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She'll undoubtedly have some memorized gibes and comebacks from her army of consultants.
William Bradley: Why on Earth Would Jerry Brown Want to Be Governor of California? William Bradley 2010
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She'll undoubtedly have some memorized gibes and comebacks from her army of consultants.
William Bradley: Why on Earth Would Jerry Brown Want to Be Governor of California? William Bradley 2010
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In the babel of parting gibes to Dick, none of the guests was aware of aught else than a bright morning, the promise of a happy day, and a genial host bidding them a merry going.
CHAPTER XX 2010
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The Jewish student who suffered the injury told the Guardian: "I've seen this kind of game before, so it wasn't so much the game that offended me, as much as the antisemitic gibes that went with it."
Nazi-themed drinking game 'sparked brawl on LSE union skiing trip' 2012
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She'll undoubtedly have some memorized gibes and comebacks from her army of consultants.
William Bradley: Why on Earth Would Jerry Brown Want to Be Governor of California? William Bradley 2010
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She'll undoubtedly have some memorized gibes and comebacks from her army of consultants.
William Bradley: Why on Earth Would Jerry Brown Want to Be Governor of California? William Bradley 2010
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She'll undoubtedly have some memorized gibes and comebacks from her army of consultants.
William Bradley: Why on Earth Would Jerry Brown Want to Be Governor of California? William Bradley 2010
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