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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of fib.

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Examples

  • I kind of fibbed a bit and told my boss I had to see a doctor for my allergies, because I was too embarassed to tell him that I had a highlighting injury.

    Archive 2007-09-01 Elizabeth Kerri Mahon 2007

  • ZAHN: Well, we kind of fibbed a little, didn't we?

    CNN Transcript Feb 2, 2003 2003

  • He surrendered his license back in 2008 possibly to escape charges that he "fibbed" on his bar application.

    Latest Articles 2010

  • He surrendered his license back in 2008 possibly to escape charges that he 'fibbed' on his bar application.

    Libertarian Blog Place Various Libertarian Bloggers 2010

  • He surrendered his license back in 2008 possibly to escape charges that he "fibbed" on his bar application.

    Latest Articles 2010

  • Boyle "fibbed" to his US producers that he wanted to translate about 10 percent of the dialogue into Hindi, then translated almost a third of it.

    Tonight 2009

  • One of his other reference points was 'Satya', a 1998 film about the Mumbai underworld, written by Saurabh Shukla (who plays Sergeant Srinivas in Slumdog) - Boyle "fibbed" to his US producers that he wanted to translate about 10 per cent of the dialogue for 'Slumdog' into Hindi, then translated almost a third of the script.

    Independent.ie - Frontpage RSS Feed 2009

  • "fibbed" to her mother; and on that memorable and ethically instructive occasion her mother had regarded her in this same calm fashion.

    The Last Shot Frederick Palmer 1915

  • He surrendered his license back in 2008 possibly to escape charges that he 'fibbed' on his bar application. "

    Libertarian Blog Place Various Libertarian Bloggers 2010

  • He surrendered his license back in 2008 possibly to escape charges that he ‘fibbed’ on his bar application.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Massive Problems with Anti-Obama Allegations That Have Been Making the Rounds Recently 2010

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