Dictionary of English - gibe, gybe, or jibe

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To gibe someone, or at someone, is to mock them or jeer at them: They gibed him about the error. To gybe, as applied to a sailing ship, is to shift direction: The yacht gybed suddenly to port. Both verbs have the alternative spelling jibe.

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