lib
noun
lib
1 American
[lib]
/ lɪb /
lib.
2
American
abbreviation
lib.
3
American
abbreviation
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librarian.
-
library.
Lib.
4
American
abbreviation
lib.
1
British
abbreviation
-
librarian
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library
Lib.
2
British
abbreviation
lib
3
British
/ lɪb /
noun
Etymology
Origin of lib1
First recorded in 1965–70; by shortening
Origin of lib.2
From the Latin word liber
Example Sentences
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"I've realised that usually I like to ad lib but you can't ad lib a script because your fellow actor doesn't know when you're going to stop talking."
From BBC • Apr. 13, 2023
If women’s lib is commonly thought to have progressed in successive wavelets over the better part of a century, “After Sappho” wants to rewrite that linear story into a swirl — not waves but eddies.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 25, 2023
Sure enough, after three months, the mice who ate ad lib were stricken with obesity, diabetes, liver disease, and a host of other ugly conditions.
From Salon • Oct. 9, 2022
We shoot six episodes a day and they just fly along because it’s all ad lib.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 13, 2021
Dad had a good sense of theater, and he’d try to time this apparent ad lib so that it would coincide with the change in traffic.
From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
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