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Definition of "gybe" [gybe]

  • Variant of jibe1. (verb)

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.

Use "gybe" in a sentence
  • "You'll gybe in a squall when there isn't a motor boat to pick you up, or you'll get a pleurisy when I'm not there, or you'll crash your car where labourers don't come."
  • "It's not racist when your best interests gybe with the interests of the candidate that happens to look like you."
  • ""It's not racist when your best interests gybe with the interests of the candidate that happens to look like you." ... unless you're a white Republican living in the South ..."
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