Overview of verb rib

The verb rib has 2 senses

• rib -- (form vertical ribs by knitting; "A ribbed sweater")


• ridicule, roast, guy, blackguard, laugh at, jest at, rib, make fun, poke fun -- (subject to laughter or ridicule; "The satirists ridiculed the plans for a new opera house"; "The students poked fun at the inexperienced teacher"; "His former students roasted the professor at his 60th birthday")

Overview of adj ribbed

The adj ribbed has 2 senses

• ribbed -- (furnished or strengthened with ribs)


• costate, ribbed -- ((of the surface) having a rough, riblike texture)