ribber
1 Americannoun
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ribbers
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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
Jerdon ribber so still and col', Let's go down to Jerdon.
From Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume XVI, Texas Narratives, Part 3 by United States. Work Projects Administration
I had just completed this culinary feat when Uncle Peter whispered to me: "Look, chile, down yander by the ribber!"
From At Boarding School with the Tucker Twins by Nell Speed
Den he cut de top off an' den he cut de bottom off so de thick trunk fall right on de edge uh de ribber.
From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States, From Interviews with Former Slaves Virginia Narratives by Work Projects Administration
Hollywood ribbers had great fun with the title When Tomorrow Comes.
From Time Magazine Archive
There is, too, great vitality and a peculiar reserved passion, like that of a Delacroix à ribbers, and in his still-life he is as great even as Manet.
From Promenades of an Impressionist by James Huneker
My pappy tell me jes' how cum dey cross all uh dose ribbers.
From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States, From Interviews with Former Slaves Virginia Narratives by Work Projects Administration
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