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This week's theme Slang This week's words jake rhubarb grift jive dibs Today's word in Visual Thesaurus This week's comments AWADmail 366 Got a website? Free content for your site Words, quotations & more Discuss Feedback RSS/XML A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg dibs PRONUNCIATION: (dibz) MEANING: noun: The right or claim on something. ETYMOLOGY: From shortening of dibstones, a children's game played with pebbles. USAGE: "Carly: I've got dibs on 'Don't Cry for Me, Argentina'. Syesha: No way, girl. That's my song." Donald Munro; What A Tangled 'Idol' We Weave; Fresno Bee (California); Apr 20, 2008. "Department officers were given first dibs for the job." Michael Tucker; Town Approves Hengel; Belgrade News (Montana); Jun 19, 2009. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. -Isaac Asimov, scientist and writer (1920-1992)

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