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
But seeing her one-time protégé wearing bib No. 13 made Street very worried.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 2026
"Today with bib No.1 I had a lot of pressure but I just tried to enjoy the race and I was fast," Franzoni added.
From Barron's ● Jan. 16, 2026
Her picture, and even bib number, have now become symbols used to empower women, inspiring a global movement called 261 Fearless.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2025
“Thank you,” Mr. Spencer said as he folded the receipt and tucked it into the bib of his overalls.
From "Stella by Starlight" by Sharon M. Draper
“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., see R. S. C., 1894, 21.
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
The date is erroneously conjectured in Moss's Classical Bib. to be 1511.
From The Ship of Fools, Volume 1 by Barclay, Alexander
This is a reprint of an article by M. Delisle in the Bib. de l'Éc. des Chartes, xliii.
From The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2 by Yule, Henry
Klaproth's materials for this edition were sold after his death Fr.200 to the bookseller Duprat; See Cat. des Livres composant la Bib. de M.K.,
From The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2 by Yule, Henry
Index: D His rule at Sitka, 44; his character, 44; his death, 1819, 45, Bib.:
From The Makers of Canada: Index and Dictionary of Canadian History by Various
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
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
Former defender, and City youth team coach, Kolo Toure has also been drafted in to help out during the tournament and was assisting during the warm-up, as well as laying out bibs and balls.
From BBC ● Jun. 18, 2025
Some of the people around her, all wearing bright-yellow bibs, took a few uncertain steps.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 28, 2024
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
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
Farm-labourers and other peasants, who combined a little poaching with their farming, and a little brawling and bibbing with their poaching, found themselves sooner or later in Mixen Lane.
From The Mayor of Casterbridge by Hardy, Thomas
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
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