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  • noun Plural form of jibe.

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Examples

  • The Daily Show host's Rally to Restore Sanity was a success, if the sensible crowd and feeble media jibes are anything to go by

    Jon Stewart rally: moderation breaks out in Washington crowd Hadley Freeman 2010

  • Bernard allows Emory to insult him with racist jibes, which is telling because his mother worked as a maid to a white family for whose son he felt unrequited love.

    boy culture 2008

  • Referring to a meeting in Vryheid where Hanekom had invited the premier to accompany him to deal with a crisis situation, Mdlalose accused Hanekom of making "jibes" at the meeting, including reference to the national government having done away with

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1995

  • Everything in this world "jibes" in with everything else, and all the fruits of this Nebraska Bill are like the poisoned source from which they come.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Abraham Lincoln Writings Abraham Lincoln 1837

  • Everything in this world "jibes" in with everything else, and all the fruits of this Nebraska Bill are like the poisoned source from which they come.

    The Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 2: 1843-1858 Abraham Lincoln 1837

  • Everything in this world "jibes" in with everything else, and all the fruits of this Nebraska bill are like the poisoned source from which they come.

    Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln, 1832-1865 Abraham Lincoln 1837

  • "Governor Goodhair" jibes -- "I'm a pretty big believer you make your own luck," he said in a soft West Texas drawl.

    unknown title 2009

  • They were immune to the kind of jibes that had hit home with Meinhof: unlike writers, they felt that they were "doing things".

    Film | guardian.co.uk Philip Oltermann 2008

  • Mr. Obama's relationship with global warming may indeed be perfunctory, but he understands the necessity of shibboleths to rationalize and justify the "investments" he's dishing out to manufacture a support base whose need for subsidies and regulatory favors jibes with the Democratic Party's need for donations.

    How Green Became Obama's Albatross Jr. Holman W. Jenkins 2012

  • Victoria responds: I hesitate to give publicity to the tripe about the Bevan Foundation on the Guerilla Welsh-fare blog, but it has got me thinking about ... the ease of making cheap anonymous jibes via blogs

    Archive 2009-08-01 2009

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