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noun

dibs n.

A sweet preparation or treacle of grape juice, much used in the East.

A small amount of money.

A right or claim, such as the right of use, or of first choice; as, I have dibs on the binoculars after Jim is finished..

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Etymology of 'Dibs'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Dibs" Quotes from Famous Books

... dibs," said the Rangar, "that she jolly well didn't fancy your being on the scene ahead of her! I'll bet you she decided to be there first and get control of the situation! Take me? You'd lose if you did! She's slippery, and quick, and ...

— King—of the Khyber Rifles • Talbot Mundy

... of the heaviest years in the whole course of my ministry. The spring was slow of coming, and cold and wet when it did come; the dibs were full, the roads foul, and the ground that should have been dry at the seed-time, was as claggy as clay, and clung to the harrow. The labour of man and beast was thereby augmented; and all nature being in ...

— The Annals of the Parish • John Galt

... all his life in narrow streets, and between mean houses he could not look over, and in a narrow circle of ideas from which there was no escape. He thought the whole duty of man was to be smarter than his fellows, get his hands, as he put it, "on the dibs," and have a good time. He was, in fact, the sort of man who had made England and America what they were. The luck had been against him so far, but that was by the way. He was a mere aggressive and acquisitive individual with no sense of the State, no habitual loyalty, no devotion, ...

— The War in the Air • Herbert George Wells

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