Associations to the word «Gib»

Wiktionary

GIB, noun. A bolt or wedge made from wood or metal used for holding a machine part in place.
GIB, noun. A castrated male cat or ferret.
GIB, noun. A male cat; a tomcat.
GIB, verb. To fasten in place with a gib.
GIB, noun. (video games) Miscellaneous pieces of a fragged character, most often in first-person shooters.
GIB, verb. (video games) To blast an enemy or opponent into gibs.
GIB, noun. (New Zealand) plasterboard.
GIB, verb. (New Zealand) To install plasterboard.
GIB, symbol. The ISO 3166-1 three-letter (alpha-3) code for Gibraltar.
GIB, noun. SI abbreviation for gibibyte or gibibytes.
GIB BOOM, noun. Alternative form of jib boom
GIB BOOMS, noun. Plural of gib boom

Dictionary definition

GIB, noun. A unit of information equal to 1024 mebibytes or 2^30 (1,073,741,824) bytes.
GIB, noun. A castrated tomcat.

Wise words

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