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rib
verb- to make fun of someone US, 1930
- Buck was also a close friend of Louis’, and he would rib Zutty now and then about leaving Louis, so that put me on a complex even more. — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 237, 1946
- He started to rib me, called me a square. — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Pimp, p. 99, 1969
- to insult someone in a semi-formal quasi-friendly competition US
A variation of “rib” (to tease). - There are many different terms for playing the dozens, including “bagging, capping, cracking, dissing, hiking, joning, ranking, ribbing, serving, signifying, slipping, sounding and snapping”. — James Haskins, The Story of Hip-Hop, p. 54, 2000
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