dib

dib
1) n
a contribution, portion, amount of money. This word was in use in Britain in the late 19th century, but is now heard mainly in the USA, typically in children's street or playground games. The plural form was common in Eng-land until the late 1950s and survives especially in the expression 'to have dibs on something', meaning to reserve or have first rights to something.
2) vb, n
British
a partly smoked cigarette saved for relighting later, or the act of extinguish-ing it. This term, which may originate in a dialect verb meaning to 'pinch' or to 'stub', is used for instance by workmen, labourers and the armed forces.

Contemporary slang . 2014.

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