Definition of "nibs" []

• Informal A person in authority, especially one who is self-important. Used with his or her: His nibs says we must do it. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "They look beeyootiful, and the nibs are a great addition to cut the sweetness!"
• "The Harvard-MBA-toting, former Yahoo! product designer relied on these free-flowing gab sessions--and other forms of inexpensive fact-finding like trade shows, customer surveys and industry reports--to come up with the idea for a new candy called nibs: pebble-sized cacao beans smothered in premium chocolate."
• "It was while Tillie was trying out various pen points called nibs that she made the remark about the ballpoint pen being the biggest single factor in the decline of Western Civilization."