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Definition of fib noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

fib

noun
 
/fɪb/
 
/fɪb/
(informal)
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  1. a lie, usually one that is not important
    • Stop telling fibs.
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverb + fib
    • tell
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    Word Originmid 16th cent.: perhaps a shortening of obsolete fible-fable ‘nonsense’, reduplication of fable.
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