GIBE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gibe mean? 

• GIBE (noun)
  The noun GIBE has 1 sense:

1. an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect

  Familiarity information: GIBE used as a noun is very rare.

• GIBE (verb)
  The verb GIBE has 2 senses:

1. be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics

2. laugh at with contempt and derision

  Familiarity information: GIBE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GIBE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

barb; dig; gibe; jibe; shaft; shot; slam

Context example:

she takes a dig at me every chance she gets

Hypernyms ("gibe" is a kind of...):

comment; input; remark (a statement that expresses a personal opinion or belief or adds information)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gibe"):

cheap shot (an unnecessarily aggressive and unfair remark directed at a defenseless person)

Derivation:

gibe (laugh at with contempt and derision)

• GIBE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they gibe    ... he / she / it gibes   
Past simple: gibed   
Past participle: gibed   
-ing form: gibing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

agree; check; correspond; fit; gibe; jibe; match; tally

Context example:

The suspect's fingerprints don't match those on the gun

Hypernyms (to "gibe" is one way to...):

be; equal (be identical or equivalent to)

Verb group:

accord; agree; concord; consort; fit in; harmonise; harmonize (go together)

check; check out (be verified or confirmed; pass inspection)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "gibe"):

square (be compatible with)

rhyme; rime (be similar in sound, especially with respect to the last syllable)

adhere (be compatible or in accordance with)

pattern (form a pattern)

accord; agree; concord; consort; fit in; harmonise; harmonize (go together)

befit; beseem; suit (accord or comport with)

homologize (be homologous)

resemble (appear like; be similar or bear a likeness to)

bear out; corroborate; support; underpin (support with evidence or authority or make more certain or confirm)

duplicate; parallel; twin (duplicate or match)

parallel (be parallel to)

correlate (to bear a reciprocal or mutual relation)

align (be or come into adjustment with)

coincide (be the same)

answer (match or correspond)

look (accord in appearance with)

consist (be consistent in form, tenor, or character; be congruous)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP

Sense 2

Meaning:

Laugh at with contempt and derision

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

barrack; flout; gibe; jeer; scoff

Context example:

The crowd jeered at the speaker

Hypernyms (to "gibe" is one way to...):

bait; cod; rag; rally; razz; ride; tantalise; tantalize; taunt; tease; twit (harass with persistent criticism or carping)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s PP

Derivation:

gibe (an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect)

 Context examples 

One has to come into the country to hear honest loyalty, for a sneer and a gibe are more the fashions in town.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He never spoke of the softer passions, save with a gibe and a sneer.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A newspaper with a sworn circulation of half a million published an original and spontaneous poem by Helen Della Delmar, in which she gibed and sneered at Brissenden.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

You may or may not have just cause for arresting me, said he, but at least there can be no reason why I should submit to the gibes of this person.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

That have I, he answered, and close; but I care not to go nigh him in this plight, for his wife hath a gibing tongue, and will spread the tale until I could not show my face in any market from Fordingbridge to Southampton.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I did not weep, but I knelt down and with a full heart thanked my guiding spirit for conducting me in safety to the place where I hoped, notwithstanding my adversary’s gibe, to meet and grapple with him.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)