fib

Plural: fibs

Noun

• a trivial lie
  • "he told a fib about eating his spinach"
• A lie, especially one that is more or less inconsequential.
• A liar.
• The fibula.
• A kind of experimental poem where the number of syllables in each line is the next succeeding Fibonacci number.

Verb

Verb Forms: fibbed, fibbing, fibs

• To tell a trivial or inconsequential lie.
• tell a relatively insignificant lie
  • "Fibbing is not acceptable, even if you don't call it lying"
• To lie, especially more or less inconsequentially.
• To punch, especially a series of punches in rapid succession; to beat; to hit; to strike.

Examples

• He would never FIB about knowing a word, even if it meant losing his turn.

Synonyms

story, tale, taradiddle, tarradiddle, alternative fact, anti-fact, bluff, bollocks, bullshit, canard, cap, chin, clanker, contradiction, cram, disinformation, fabrication, falsehood, falsification, fib, flam, goof, hoax, hummer, inveracity, inverity, jive, lie, mendacity, misinformation, mistruth, nonsense, nontruth, pork pie, porker, porky, prevarication, pummel, red flag, rubbish, swack-up, tall tale, terminological inexactitude, untruism, untruth, whopper, wisker, yanker, yed

Related Words

A-fib, V-fib, a-fib, pilfer, tib, v-fib

Anagrams of fib