"bib" - meanings, definitions, synonyms, thesaurus and antonyms

\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. (Zo["o]l.) An arctic fish ({Gadus luscus}), allied to the
   cod; -- called also {pout} and {whiting pout}.

3. A bibcock.

\Bib\, Bibbe \Bibbe\, v. t. [L. bibere. See {Beverage}, and
cf. {Imbibe}.]
To drink; to tipple. [Obs.]

      This miller hath . . . bibbed ale.       --Chaucer.

\Bib\, v. i.
To drink; to sip; to tipple.

      He was constantly bibbing.               --Locke.