a piece of cloth, plastic, or paper that covers the chest and is often tied under the chin of a child to protect the clothing while the child is eating.
any similar cloth or part of a garment.
the front part of an apron, overalls, or similar protective garment above the waist.
Fencing. a piece of canvas attached to the base of the mask, for protecting the throat.
Bible.
Biblical.
a piece of cloth or plastic worn, esp by babies, to protect their clothes while eating
the upper part of some aprons, dungarees, etc, that covers the upper front part of the body
Also called: pout. whiting pout. a light-brown European marine gadoid food fish, Gadus (or Trisopterus ) luscus , with a barbel on its lower jaw
short for bibcock
informal to interfere
1275–1325; Middle English bibben to drink < Latin bibere
From the Latin word bibe
A bib is a small piece of fabric that's tied under a baby's chin to keep food or milk from staining her clothes. If you feed a toddler without using a bib, you'll quickly learn how useful it can be. A baby's bib is just one type — there is also the bib that makes up the top part of overalls or an apron, the section that covers the chest. Sometimes the corresponding part of a bird's body, a patch of color on the chest, is also called a bib. The word stems from the now-obsolete verb bibben, "to drink," which is thought to be imitative of the sound your lips make as they sip liquid.
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Domingo arrives in the club’s lush courtyard garden sporting an olive-colored quilted Moncler padded shirt jacket over black bib Carhartt overalls and a black Valentino T-shirt, with a red neckerchief.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 10, 2026
In challenging conditions, with a lower starting gate due to poor weather and visibility, in the number six bib, Vonn was on form from start to finish.
From Barron's ● Jan. 10, 2026
For instance, a pair of jewel-toned beetles she picked up made an ideal centerpiece for a regal bib necklace.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 30, 2025
Last year, MacIntyre taunted his American hosts at the Valspar Championship in Florida by labelling his caddie's bib with Europe's Ryder Cup-winning score.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2025
The buckle of his bib overalls catches in the webbing and Carl hangs there, under the sea, the evidence of Kabuo Miyamoto’s crime waiting to be discovered.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
“The surface is breaking a little bit. So I feel quite lucky that, for the draw, I was in a pretty good spot with my bib. I could push everywhere.”
From Washington Times ● Mar. 3, 2023
“Ham never gets old. That word is so funny to me. And bib. I’m gonna try to work that in more.”
From The Guardian ● May 25, 2015
For biog. and bib. of his works, see Larousse, Dict.
From The Makers of Canada: Index and Dictionary of Canadian History by Various
For bib. of the original editions, see Harrisse, Notes pour Servir, etc.
From The Makers of Canada: Index and Dictionary of Canadian History by Various
For bib., see R. S. C., 1894, 21.
From The Makers of Canada: Index and Dictionary of Canadian History by Various
Bib., ed. of 1715 and of 1744. 60.—5.
From The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2 by Yule, Henry
The date is erroneously conjectured in Moss's Classical Bib. to be 1511.
From The Ship of Fools, Volume 1 by Barclay, Alexander
L Succeeds Duchesneau as intendant, 68; incapable and conceited, 186; the king's instructions to, 186, Bib.:
From The Makers of Canada: Index and Dictionary of Canadian History by Various
Atlantic Monthly Bib. d'Art de la critique Blackw.
From Henrik Ibsen A Bibliography of Criticism and Biography with an Index to Characters by Firkins, Ina Ten Eyck
Bib. s.vv. “girdle,” “sackcloth”; and M. Jastrow, Journ.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" by Various
By contrast, England, for this weekend against Italy, have opted for the bibs.
From BBC ● Mar. 6, 2026
The high school soccer debut of incoming freshman Zoe Thompson, sister of Alyssa and Giselle, will be so big that Harvard-Westlake will need to give out red bibs to photographers to identify who’s real media.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 31, 2025
We kept calling him Abs Saja, but it felt like, when the boys are on the variety show and they have their names written on the bibs, he needed a name.
From Salon ● Jun. 29, 2025
The participants, wearing bibs, were divided into groups at a train station and a park.
From Reuters ● Nov. 6, 2023
I can hear Mom’s voice cheering for us, and a few other people shout our names, too, because we’ve written them on our race bibs.
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
We bibbed up and decided to pour the bag of seafood into the tin and use the wax paper-covered table for shells.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 28, 2022
Exaggerated high-waisted trouser silhouettes, double-breasted blazers, colourful trainers and bibbed necklines were details from this collection whose influence will be felt on the high street.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 20, 2019
The bibbed quartet of Glen Johnson and Ashley Cole at full-back, with John Terry and Gary Cahill in the centre, feels first-choice.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 1, 2012
Had royalty been expected in town, Houston could have bibbed and tuckered herself no more gaudily than she did last week.
From Time Magazine Archive
Aunt Goldie stood at the eight-burner stove in stockinged feet and wearing terry-cloth slippers, with a bibbed apron over her funeral dress.
From Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles
Much about "bibbing" Legionnaires, many of whom were local "jelly beans," and the Legionnaires you condemn were only a small percentage of the total number in Cleveland.
From Time Magazine Archive
Inside town, dogs went mad, and folk kept bibbing beer While the parsons prayed for rain.
From Browning's England A Study in English Influences in Browning by Clarke, Helen Archibald
The Infidels passed that night in joy and jubilee and wine bibbing; and, as soon as it was dawn, the two armies drew out with the swart of spear and the blanch of blade.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 02 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
On the meadows near the stream, is always to be found a group of Baalbekians bibbing arak and swaying languidly to the mellow strains of the lute and the monotonous melancholy of Arabic song.
From The Book of Khalid by Rihani, Ameen Fares
Now pewter imparts flavor to ale; a Meerschaum bowl, the same to the tobacco of Smyrna; and goggle green glasses are deemed indispensable to the bibbing of Hock.
From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I by Melville, Herman
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