Bib (?), n. [From Bib, v., because the bib receives the drink that the child slavers from the mouth.]
1.
A small piece of cloth worn by children over the breast, to protect the clothes.
2. Zool.
An arctic fish (Gadus luscus), allied to the cod; -- called also pout and whiting pout.
3.
A bibcock.
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Bib, Bibbe (?), v. t. [L. bibere. See Beverage, and cf. Imbibe.]
To drink; to tipple.
[Obs.]
This miller hath . . . bibbed ale.
Chaucer.
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Bib, v. i.
To drink; to sip; to tipple.
He was constantly bibbing.
Locke.
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