Meaning

(informal) The right to use or enjoy something exclusively or before anyone else..

Definitions by Sense

1. (informal) The right to use or enjoy something exclusively or before anyone else.
2. (informal) Used to claim this right.
3. (informal) To claim a temporary right to (something); to reserve.
4. (dated) A sweet preparation or treacle of grape juice, much used in the East.
5. plural of dib
6. (obsolete) A child's game, played with dib bones or stones, throwing them up from one's palm and catching them on the back of the hand.
7. (slang, archaic) Money.

Example Sentences

I call dibs on the hammock!

He called dibs on batting first.

Who's got dibs on the chips?

Del Valle has the blessing of a garage, so he doesn't have to claim “dibs” on shoveled street spots himself, he said.

It aims to give unionized California government workers "more workplace discipline protections and first dibs on state government work," as the Sacramento Bee put it.

Besides what is thus consumed, the village makes about 180,000 pounds of raisins , one third of which is for home consumption , and about 24,000 pounds of dibs, ( grape molasses , ) all of which is for home use

Get hold of the dibs, says he, and then you are bound to be right.

Word Forms

• dibses
• dibsing
• dibsed

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Use dibs when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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