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  • adjective lacking a bib.

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  • adjective lacking a bib

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Examples

  • But in the tech age, when runners can easily produce fake chest gear, going bibless isn't even necessary.

    Fleet of Foot and Blissfully Bold, Freeloaders at the Marathon Wear Fake Bibs—but Win No Prizes Kevin Helliker 2011

  • The largest concentration of bandit catchers at the New York marathon stand guard at the entrance to Central Park, intercepting bibless runners in the final stretch.

    Fleet of Foot and Blissfully Bold, Freeloaders at the Marathon Wear Fake Bibs—but Win No Prizes Kevin Helliker 2011

  • From the ceiling hung bibless overalls, galvanized tin buckets, leather work gloves, and yellow rope.

    Plain Language Barbara Wright 2007

  • From the ceiling hung bibless overalls, galvanized tin buckets, leather work gloves, and yellow rope.

    Plain Language Barbara Wright 2007

  • From the ceiling hung bibless overalls, galvanized tin buckets, leather work gloves, and yellow rope.

    Plain Language Barbara Wright 2007

  • From the ceiling hung bibless overalls, galvanized tin buckets, leather work gloves, and yellow rope.

    Plain Language Barbara Wright 2007

  • Her black Sunday dress rustled aggressively, and her plain bibless holland apron, which she never took off except when her bonnet went on for street appearance or when she went to bed, and her little

    Some Everyday Folk and Dawn Miles Franklin 1916

  • She was wearing her second-best crimson merino frock, partly to receive the doctor and partly because it was Saturday night; over this a plain bibless apron.

    Tales of the Five Towns Arnold Bennett 1899

  • However, she persisted in dishing the dinner as well as cooking it, and then sat down, bibless and apronless, to partake of it as an illustrious guest: Mrs. Wilfer first responding to her husband's cheerful "For what we are about to receive --" with a sepulchral Amen, calculated to cast a damp upon the stoutest appetite.

    The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VI (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland IV Various 1885

  • However, she persisted in dishing the dinner as well as cooking it, and then sat down, bibless and apronless, to partake of it as an illustrious guest: Mrs Wilfer first responding to her husband's cheerful 'For what we are about to receive --' with a sepulchral Amen, calculated to cast a damp upon the stoutest appetite.

    Our Mutual Friend Charles Dickens 1841

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