v. U.S. Also gibe. [Origin obscure: perh. phonetically related to chime: see CHIME v. 8, 9 c.] intr. To chime in (with); to be in harmony or accord; to agree.
1813. Sporting Mag., XLII. 122. It however curricle-izes or gibes in but too well with the passing anecdotes of the day.
1855. Doesticks, xiv. 113. I attempting to sing the words of ‘Old Hundred,’ [while the lady played the ‘Jenny Lind Polka’] which didn’t seem to jibe.
1860. Bartlett, Americanisms, 245. To jibe [ed. 1877 to gibe], to suit, agree, harmonize.
1871. ‘Mark Twain,’ Screamers, xxix. The piece you happened to be playing … didn’t seem to gibe with the general gait of the picture that was passing at the time.
1894. Nation (N. Y.), LIX. 25 Oct., 311/1. The dislike … of Trilby’s posing for the ‘altogether,’ doesn’t jibe with the author’s authoritative declaration that to all artists … ‘nothing is so chaste as nudity.’
