chib

• chiv, shiv, shive

• (UK) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃɪb/

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• Rhymes: -ɪb

chib (plural chibs)

1. (Scotland, Tyneside, slang) A shiv (makeshift knife).

In Scotland a chib normally refers to a blunt weapon or club

chib (third-person singular simple present chibs, present participle chibbing, simple past and past participle chibbed)

1. (Scotland, Tyneside, slang) To shiv (stab).
   • 2008, James Kelman, Kieron Smith, Boy, Penguin, page 61:

     And if they had knives too, their gang had all knives and people were going to get chibbed.

To "chib" someone is to inlict harm using a weapon , in Scotland normally a blunt weapon but not exclusively.

• Scottish Vernacular Dictionary

• Bich