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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

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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’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

It was almost like a comedy ad lib session.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 14, 2023

To illustrate this, he recalls an actor leaning into his fan to deliver a line before spitting in his vicinity as an ab lib.

From Salon ● Dec. 14, 2022

So the next day I go to Room 402 at lunch and do my best to volley back right answers to Rosa’s ad lib math problems.

From "The Running Dream" by Wendelin Van Draanen

"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

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

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

Apparently it refers to the Nahuatl divinity Xiuhté cutli, described by Sahagun, Historia de Nueva España, Lib. i, cap.

From Nagualism A Study in Native American Folk-lore and History by Daniel Garrison Brinton

Motto for the Wee Frees when attempting to conciliate the Labour Party: Lib. and let Lab.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-03-31 by Various

He speaks of the shadow-fighting in Lib. iv. cap.

From The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Joseph Addison

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

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