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–noun
Informal
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1.
money in small amounts.
2.
rights; claims:
I have dibs on the car when Jimmy brings it back.
Origin:
1720–30;
shortening of earlier
dibstones
a children's game;
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dibs
children's word to express a claim on something, 1932, originally U.S., apparently a contraction of
dibstone
"a knucklebone or jack in a children's game" (1692), of unknown origin.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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