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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 Shop early or on weekdays: The best picks usually go fast, so mornings or less busy days give you first dibs.—Elizabeth Fogarty, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Sep. 2025 That means that seven teams have dibs over Carolina.—Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 25 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for dibs
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Etymology
short for dibstones jacks, from obsolete dib to dab