bib Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun top part of an apron; covering the chest
  2. noun a napkin tied under the chin of a child while eating
  3. verb drink moderately but regularly
    tipple.
    • We tippled the cognac

WordNet

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

Webster 1913