lib
noun
lib
1 American
[lib]
/ lɪb /
lib.
2
American
abbreviation
lib.
3
American
abbreviation
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librarian.
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library.
Lib.
4
American
abbreviation
lib.
1
British
abbreviation
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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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But despite all that, she's still arguably most well-known for the ad lib phrases that popped into her fast-paced raps in Mis-Teeq songs.
From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2026
It was almost like a comedy ad lib session.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 14, 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
There is a silence in the room and then a babble of ad lib conversation. 9TH JUROR: Please.
From "Twelve Angry Men" by Reginald Rose
"It's very ad lib. So you're never really able to simulate what's going to happen."
From US News ● Nov. 5, 2015
Senior Account Manager - Digital Marketing Agency ad lib. windsor, berkshire. £27k - £35k.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 31, 2010
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From The Guardian ● Mar. 23, 2010
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From The Guardian ● Mar. 21, 2010
The most accurate account is contained in S. Romanin’s Storia documentata di Venezia, lib. x. cap. iv. vii. and x.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" by Various
“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
The passage this is intended to illustrate is in Lib. iv.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" by Various
It appears to have been a quotation from Sozomen, by Socrates, Lib. vii. chap.
From A Series of Letters in Defence of Divine Revelation by Hosea Ballou
I dare say I couldn’t light upon all these now; but, having been turning over Essai 9, Lib. iii.
From Letters of Edward FitzGerald in Two Volumes Vol. II by William Aldis Wright
He speaks of the shadow-fighting in Lib. iv. cap.
From The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Joseph Addison
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