mib
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Perhaps a corruption of marble.
Noun
[edit]mib (plural mibs)
- (games) A marble (glass ball used in games), especially one used as a target.
- 2002, Norah L. Lewis, Freedom to Play: We Made Our Own Fun, page 114:
- On my first shot of the last game, I hit two mibs, my shooter and one marble exiting the ring, but leaving a snooger, which is a “commie rat” target marble near the rim of the ring.
- 2002 May, Sean McCollum, “For All the Marbles”, in Boys' Life, page 28:
- Thirteen five-eighths-inch marbles (“mibs”) are set in a cross in the center. Each mib should be three inches from its neighboring mib. Each player shoots with a “shooter,” a marble that's one-half to three-quarter inches in diameter.
- 2011, Sean Kelly, “At the Crossroads: A Teacher's Journey to Understanding Classroom Conflict”, in Peter Gouzouasis, editor, Pedagogy in a New Tonality, page 36:
- He focused on the mib on the edge of the group inside the circle. The blue one was his favourite and he had it right where he wanted it.