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dibs
[dibz]
noun
money in small amounts.
rights; claims.
I have dibs on the car when Jimmy brings it back.
51Թ History and Origins
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of dibs1
Idioms and Phrases
Example Sentences
“She called dibs on my dad. All the girls picked one from the campsite, and they went and met. My mom and dad, they stuck. Nobody else did.”
It’s long been anticipated that if the freeway never got finished, Caltrans would sell the houses, with existing tenants getting first dibs.
“Rock, upstairs. I got dibs on the first floor.”
For England, Bellingham has had first dibs as the number 10 this season.
Others pointed out that most major resellers have relationships with shoe company officials, or plugs, who occasionally offer them first dibs on a new release.
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When To Use
When you call dibs on something, you claim it, especially in advance (before other people can claim it or get to it).To call dibs, you usually actually say (or shout) dibs, especially while mentioning the thing you’re claiming, as in Dibs on the last slice of pizza! If you’ve got dibs, you consider yourself to have the right to the thing that you’ve made a claim to. Dibs is very informal and is mostly used by kids. It’s especially seen in the phrases call dibs, have dibs, got dibs, and first dibs.Less commonly, dibs is used as a slang term for small amounts of money or as another name for the game of jacks.Example: There’s only one cupcake left, but I already called dibs on it.
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