subs. (colloquial).—1. Gibraltar. Once a penal station: whence—2. A gaol.
1877. W. H. THOMSON, Five Years’ Penal Servitude, iii. 221. I did a lagging of seven and was at the GIB. three out of it.
1892. Pall Mall Gazette, 23 March, p. 6, c. 1. ‘Stormy Weather at GIB.’ The weather here has been fearful; 51 inches of rain have been registered, and the land for miles round Gibraltar is submerged.
TO HANG ONE’S GIB, verb. phr. (colloquial).—To pout. See JIB.
