as in lie
a statement known by its maker to be untrue and made in order to deceive
the claim that everyday living would be impossible without at least a few innocent fibs
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as in to lie
to make a statement one knows to be untrue
fibbed and said that he had remembered to water her plants while she was away
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as in to lick
to strike repeatedly
the two drunken pub crawlers proceeded to fib each other senseless
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Recent Examples of fib
Noel Murray, Vulture, 12 Dec. 2024
These fibs are not uncommon even among professional chefs, celebrity chef Tom Kerridge told the news agency SWNS.
—Christine Rousselle, Fox News, 9 Nov. 2024
Khloe Quill, Fox News, 16 Mar. 2025
Much like real-life income reporting, the game’s requirement to self-report income before tax created an incentive for people to fib.
—Iese Business School, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2025
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Noun
Rather than going hard on law stuff or culture stuff, this episode relies a lot on Matty using her powers of empathy and her facility with fibs to crack the mystery underlying this case.
—Noel Murray, Vulture, 12 Dec. 2024
These fibs are not uncommon even among professional chefs, celebrity chef Tom Kerridge told the news agency SWNS.
—Christine Rousselle, Fox News, 9 Nov. 2024
Verb
In the poll, 60% of respondents confessed to wanting to impress their dentist during office visits, leading 57% of them to fib about their dental hygiene.
—Khloe Quill, Fox News, 16 Mar. 2025
Much like real-life income reporting, the game’s requirement to self-report income before tax created an incentive for people to fib.
—Iese Business School, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fib
Noun
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In some contexts, [Lay] is the past tense of lie, as in recline.—
Sam Corbin,
New York Times,
22 Apr. 2025
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Perhaps that’s what makes my lies defective and disjointed.—
Domenico Starnone,
New Yorker,
20 Apr. 2025
Noun
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But the most sobering cautionary tale comes from 1894, when a lighthouse keeper’s pet cat named Tibbles was introduced to Stephens Island in New Zealand.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
26 Apr. 2025
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Comments On Swift Horses is rife with drama — a tale of a love triangle between a young woman, Muriel (Daisy Edgar-Jones), her Korean War veteran husband Lee (Will Poulter), and his iconoclastic brother Julius (Jacob Elordi).—
Maureen Lee Lenker,
EW.com,
25 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Then, after young mothers and children who had just arrived shared their stories, the Holy Father returned to the sister who had been mentioned before.—
Mireya Villarreal,
ABC News,
24 Apr. 2025
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Ingrid Vasquez,
People.com,
24 Apr. 2025
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“Fib.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fib. Accessed 30 Apr. 2025.
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