ribbing(JOKE)informal

Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

to tease someone
teaseThe boys teased her mercilessly on the playground.
jokeI've lost your passport. Only joking!
kidI'm sorry, I forgot to get you a birthday present. Just kidding!
pull someone's legIs that really your car or are you pulling my leg?
ribHis brothers were ribbing him about his new girlfriend.
make fun ofThe other children made fun of him because he wore glasses.

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standing joke
wag
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rib | American Dictionary

rib
noun[ C ]
us/rɪb/

ribnoun[C] (BONE)

one of the bones that curve around from the spine (= the line of bones down the center of the back) on each side of the upper part of the body to form the chest
A rib is also a piece of meat taken from this part of an animal:
barbecued ribs
Ribs are also the thin, curved pieces of metal or wood that shape and support the sides and bottom of a boat or the top of an umbrella (= a cover that protects from rain or sun).
rib
verb[ T ]
 infmlus/rɪb/-bb-

ribverb[T] (JOKE)

to laugh at or joke about someone in a friendly way; tease:
The two leaders ribbed each other good-naturedly during the press conference.

Examples of rib

rib
These projections are small ribs that have become fused on to the side of the vertebra.
Both internal and external leptotriches were observed as outgrowths of internal and external ribs respectively (fig. 2).
To conclude, there evidently is no precisely definable loss of stability, or onset of ribbing, in symmetric film-splitting between counter-rotating cylinders of finite length.
It should be noted that the data for cylinders with ribs or with pyramidal roughness as well as with spherical roughness show similar trends qualitatively.
Finally, it defines visually the form of the vault, and all of these functions maybe thought of as the 'function' of the rib.
The open areas between the ribs are 27 mm wide and 100 mm high.
The ribs were approximated with a single 2-0 silk tie, the subcutaneous muscle layer was repaired, and the skin closed.
Most of the bones lie in horizontal position but a vertically orientated dentary and rib have been observed.
That the alleged victim had suffered a rib contusion is thus a false proposition.
The candy stripes gave way to brown brickwork and the assertive winglike roof became an excessively modest double mansard with curious illuminated metal ribs attached.
Several cases showed additional periosteal bone reaction of the ribs or the clavicle suggesting an inflammatory reaction.
Following these, there are nine pairs of thin and slender ribs, of which the six posteriormost attach on the haemal arches and spines.
This statement may be inverted, ribs applied to smoothly turning surfaces are decorative.
The analysis of ribbing necessarily starts from a mathematical description of the unperturbed base state, a steady, two-dimensional viscous freesurface flow.
Among other findings that may also be pertinent to ribbing in film-splitting, there are three main points.
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