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  lib

  noun

  liberation.
• lib.
  lib.

  abbreviation

  book.
• Lib.
  Lib.

  abbreviation

  Liberal.

lib

¹ American  

[lib] / lɪb /

noun

Informal.

1. liberation.

   women's lib; gay lib.

2. a libber.

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lib. ² American  

abbreviation

1. book.

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lib. ³ American  

abbreviation

1. librarian.

2. library.

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Lib. ⁴ American  

abbreviation

1. Liberal.

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lib. ¹ British  

abbreviation

1. librarian

2. library

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Lib. ² British  

abbreviation

1. Liberal

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lib ³ British  

/ lɪb /

noun

1. informal short for liberation

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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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“It’s a spill-your-guts-out record,” she says, adding that for every song, she’d write a first verse, then ad lib the rest in the studio.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2025

I could ad lib those two scenes with the boys when I wake them up.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 29, 2024

"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

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

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

"It's very ad lib. So you're never really able to simulate what's going to happen."

From US News ● Nov. 5, 2015

UK USA UK Jobs in media Deputy Editor - B2C ad lib. this is a great opportunity for a talented deputy…. £20k - £25k.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 29, 2010

Senior Digital Project Manager ad lib. this is an incredible opportunity for a talented d…. £35k - £40k.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 28, 2010

Digital Communications Executive ad lib. cheltenham, gloucestershire. £22k - £25k.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 21, 2010

Pliny has given an accurate account of the mentagra in his Natural History, lib. xxvii. cap.

From Curiosities of Medical Experience by J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen

“I’m serious, Lib. If anything goes wrong, my parents’ll never let me leave home again. Ever.”

From "Better Nate Than Ever" by Tim Federle

Lib. ii. begins with the Story of Udáyana to whom we must be truly grateful as our only guide: he and his son Naraváhanadatta fill up the rest and end with lib. xviii.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 10 by Sir Richard Francis Burton

For the adoration paid to Aristotle by the schoolmen of the twelfth century see John of Salisbury’s Metalogicus Lib. ii. c.

From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I by Henry Charles Lea

How long, O Lord, dost thou delay to avenge our blood?" and they are told that "they shall 39 Lib. ii. cap.

From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by William Rounseville Alger

—I have a halfpenny, apparently American, bearing on the obverse, a head to the right, and "Auctori Connect.;" and on the reverse, "Inde." for independence, and "Lib." for liberty; date in the exerg.,

From Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 109, November 29, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various