Definition of "fib" []

• An insignificant or childish lie. (noun)
• To tell a fib. See Synonyms at lie2. (verb-intransitive)

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• "* And: Ben Adler points out that O'Donnell's Oxford fib is especially ironic and amusing, because "conservatives and Republicans are famously suspicious of educational credentials and disdainful of cultural (as opposed to economic) elites.""
• "I thought of all the evil deeds of my short life – of pinching Felix to make him cry out at family prayers, of playing truant from Sunday School and going fishing one day, of a certain fib – no, no away from this awful hour with all such euphonious evasions – of a lie I had once told, of many a selfish and unkind word and thought and action."
• "Euros attained 1.3008 on Friday just blipping above the 61.8 med term fib level."