EGAVE

fib

About 0.26 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A lie, especially one that is more or less inconsequential.
  2. noun A liar.
  3. verb To lie, especially more or less inconsequentially.
  4. noun The fibula.
  5. verb To punch, especially a series of punches in rapid succession; to beat; to hit; to strike.
  6. noun A kind of experimental poem where the number of syllables in each line is the next succeeding Fibonacci number.

Similar words

tarradiddle tale story taradiddle untruth fab lie iff fbi polyester

Often followed by

to and about is or in system milling for

Word family

fibbed fibber fibbers fibbing fibs

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