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(informal) The right to use or enjoy something exclusively or before anyone else. quotations examples
Del Valle has the blessing of a garage, so he doesn't have to claim “dibs” on shoveled street spots himself, he said.
2011 March 23, “We asked mayoral candidates: Do you support 'dibs' on parking spots?”, in Chicago Sun-Times
It aims to give unionized California government workers "more workplace discipline protections and first dibs on state government work," as the Sacramento Bee put it.
2012 February 16, “Our View: Public Employees Bill of Rights Act all wrong”, in Appeal-Democrat
(informal) Used to claim this right examples
third-person singular simple present dibses, present participle dibsing, simple past and past participle dibsed
(informal) To claim a temporary right to (something); to reserve. examples
(dated) A sweet preparation or treacle of grape juice, much used in the East. quotations examples
Besides what is thus consumed, the village makes about 180,000 pounds of raisins , one third of which is for home consumption , and about 24,000 pounds of dibs, ( grape molasses , ) all of which is for home use
1874, John William Kirton, The Temperance Hand-Book
plural of dib examples
(obsolete) A child's game, played with dib bones or stones, throwing them up from one's palm and catching them on the back of the hand.