gib

Meanings

Noun

• A bolt or wedge made from wood or metal used for holding a machine part in place.
• A castrated male cat or ferret.
• A male cat; a tomcat.
• A hooked prolongation on the lower jaw of a male salmon or trout.
• Miscellaneous pieces of a fragged character, most often in first-person shooters.
• plasterboard.

Verb

• To fasten in place with a gib.
• To blast an enemy or opponent into gibs.
• To install plasterboard.

Origin

• Unknown (18th century). Perhaps abbreviated from Gilbert, the name of the cat in the old story of Reynard the Fox, in the Romaunt of the Rose, etc.
• Shortened from giblet.
• From the trademark GIB, registered by Fletcher Building Holdings Limited, the major brand of plasterboard in New Zealand.