1. fib - Noun
2. fib - Verb
A falsehood; a lie; -- used euphemistically.
To speak falsely.
To tell a fib to.
Source: Webster's dictionaryI know I fib a good deal. After all, a woman's charm is fifty per cent illusion, but when a thing is important I tell the truth. - Blanche Scene II. Tennessee Williams
Er, will your grandmother tell that fib for you?” "I guess so. Yes, I'm sure she will. She says people have to tell little white fibs or else people couldn't stand each other. But she says fibs were meant to be used, not abused. Robert A. Heinlein
Everybody is seldom to be believed. "They say" is not proof that they know. On dit is French for a fib. Samuel Laman Blanchard
Shouts of dismay rose as the red flesh splattered against the table. It was only a tomato, but one would think I was pulping a decaying heart by the noise the big, strong FIB officers were making. Kim Harrison
I don't really care what people tell children - when you believe in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy, one more fib won't hurt. But I am infuriated by the growing notion, posited in some touchy-feely quarters, that all women are, or can be, beautiful. Julie Burchill
When one fib becomes due as it were, you must forge another to take up the old acceptance; and so the stock of your lies in circulation inevitably multiplies, and the danger of detection increases every day. William Makepeace Thackeray