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Loyalty members, however, will get first dibs online on Sunday, March 1.—Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 27 Feb. 2026 Defending World Cup champion Argentina, ranked second in the world, got first dibs and announced that its national team will indeed make its camp at Sporting KC’s Compass Minerals National Performance Center.—Pj Green, Kansas City Star, 6 Feb. 2026 More than a hundred dibs complaints were lodged with 311 from the weekend.—Sara MacHi, CBS News, 1 Dec. 2025 Families with students in the San Diego Unified School District are to get first dibs.—Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Nov. 2025 See All Example Sentences for dibs
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Etymology
short for dibstones jacks, from obsolete dib to dab