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An inveterate ribber, she likes practical jokes: when her good friend Clark Gable gave her a BB gun, she practiced potshots at him.

From Time Magazine Archive

A busy and successful comedian, who free-lances for features, has a contract for eight educational shorts a year, Vince Barnett is less famed in Hollywood as an actor than as a "ribber."

From Time Magazine Archive

Dere's enough o' dat; an' den more went down de ribber on a sloop a week an' more ago.'

From The Forsaken Inn A Novel by Green, Anna Katharine

It was caught by one of the strings to that old log, sah, that lies out in the ribber back of—' he hesitated—'Massa Urquhart's house, sah.'

From The Forsaken Inn A Novel by Green, Anna Katharine

He pick hisself a tall ellum long side de ribber an' he clumb to de top an' he mark out on de trunk wid he ax uh section 'long 'bout, oh, 'long 'bout thirty-fo'ty feet.

From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States, From Interviews with Former Slaves Virginia Narratives by Work Projects Administration