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noun Informal.
1.
money in small amounts.
2.
rights; claims: I have dibs on the car when Jimmy brings it back.
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Dibs
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| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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| dibs (dɪbz) | |
| —pl n | |
| 1. | another word for jacks |
| 2. | a slang word for money |
| 3. | informal ( |
| [C18: shortened from dibstones children's game played with knucklebones or pebbles, probably from dib to tap, dip, variant of | |
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The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
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dibs
game of great antiquity and worldwide distribution, now played with stones, bones, seeds, filled cloth bags, or metal or plastic counters (the jacks), with or without a ball. The name derives from "chackstones"-stones to be tossed. The knuckle, wrist, or ankle bones (astragals) of goats, sheep, or other animals also have been used in play. Such objects have been found in prehistoric caves in Kiev, Ukraine, and pictures of the game are depicted on jars from ancient Greece.
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