fib n : a trivial lie; "he told a fib about eating his spinach"; "how can I stop my child from telling stories?" [syn: story, tale, tarradiddle, taradiddle] v : tell a relatively insignificant lie; "Fibbing is not acceptable, even if you don't call it lying" [also: fibbing, fibbed]

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪb

Etymology 1

Noun

1. A lie, especially one that is more or less inconsequential.

   You've been telling fibs again, haven't you?

Verb

1. To lie, especially more or less inconsequentially.

Synonyms

• tell a fib
• tell fibs

Translations

• French: bobard

Etymology 2

Shortened from fibula

Noun

1. medical informal Short form of fibula.

See also

• tib

Fib may refer to:

• Fib (poetry), a form of poetry similar to haiku
• Fib, a Pictish kingdom, which went on to become Fife, in modern Scotland

FIB is an acronym or abbreviation that may mean one of the following:

• Facultat d'Informàtica de Barcelona, the Barcelona School of Informatics of the Technical University of Catalonia
• Federation of International Bandy, the international governing body for the sport of bandy
• Festival Internacional de Benicàssim, a music festival held in Benicassim, Valencia, Spain
• The gene encoding fibrinogen
• Focused ion beam, an analytical instrument used in the semiconductor industry
• Forwarding Information Base
• Federal Investigation Bureau, an austrian federal police force
• Federal Investigation Bureau, a fictional agency in the 2008 video game Grand Theft Auto IV, based on the real life Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

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