tib out

English

Verb

tib out (third-person singular simple present tibs out, present participle tibbing out, simple past and past participle tibbed out)

  1. (UK, slang, obsolete, Charterhouse School) To play truant.
    • 1921, Gerald Stanley Davies, Charterhouse in London: Monastery, Mansion, Hospital, School, page 270:
      […] "tibbed out" once for a day's fishing on the Lea […]

References

  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary
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