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fibsnounpl. of fib a statement known by its maker to be untrue and made in order to deceivethe claim that everyday living would be impossible without at least a few innocent fibs fables, fabrications, fairy tales, falsehoods, falsities, lies, mendacities, prevarications, stories, tales, taradiddles(or tarradiddles), untruths, whoppers distortions, exaggerations, half-truthsambiguities, equivocations, obliquitiesdefamations, libels, slandersperjuriesbluffs, fictions, poses, pretenses(or pretences)humbug, jives, nonsensecanards, fallacies, misconceptions, mythsfalsifications, misinformations, misreports, misrepresentations, misstatementsdeceits, dishonesties, duplicities, fraudulences truths facts, truisms, veritieshonesties, veracitiesauthentications, confirmations, substantiations, validations, verifications fibsverb1present tense third-person singular of fibto make a statement one knows to be untruefibbed and said that he had remembered to water her plants while she was away fabricates, lies, prevaricates forswears(also foreswears), perjuresequivocates, fudges, paltersbeguiles, cozens, deceives, deludes, dupes, fools, gulls, hoaxes, hoodwinks, kids, snows, takes in, tricksdefames, libels, slanders, traducesfalsifies, misreports, misrepresents, misstatesdistorts, garblesdissembles, dissimulatesmisguides, misinforms, misleads asserts, swears, testifiesauthenticates, confirms, substantiates, validates, verifies fibsverb2present tense third-person singular of fibBritishto strike repeatedlythe two drunken pub crawlers proceeded to fib each other senseless bashes, bastes, bats, batters, beats, belabors, belts, birches, bludgeons, buffets, bungs up, clubs, curries, does, drubs, flogs, hammers, hides, laces, lambastes(or lambasts), lashes, lathers, licks, mauls, messes (up), paddles, pelts, pommels, pounds, pummels, punches out, roughs (up), slates, slogs, switches, tans, thrashes, threshes, thumps, tromps, wallops, whales, whips, whops(or whaps), whups, works over assails, assaults, attacks, besets, boxes, busts, chops, clobbers, clouts, cracks, cudgels, cuffs, descends (on or upon), hits, jumps (on), knocks, lams, lays on, pastes, pounces (on or upon), punches, raids, rushes, slams, slaps, smacks, smashes, socks, spanks, storms, swats, swipes, thwacks, whacks, whams, whompsblackjacks, canes, cowhides, flagellates, fustigates, horsewhips, leathers, pistol-whips, rawhides, scourges, strapsgores, lacerates, woundsmaims, mangles, mutilates beats up on |