Crossword-Solution: FIB 3 letters, 232 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

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Word Word Type Definition
Fib n. A falsehood; a lie; -- used euphemistically.
Fib v. i. To speak falsely.
Fib v. t. To tell a fib to.

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FIB anagram BIF, FBI, IBF

We have 232 clues for the answer “FIB”

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"I didn't know I was speeding, officer," e.g. 1 answer
"I love your new haircut!," perhaps 1 answer
"I'm busy that night," often 1 answer
"I'm five minutes away," often 1 answer
"I'm on my way," maybe 1 answer
"Of course I read your screenplay," maybe 1 answer
"Of course it looks good on you!," maybe 1 answer
"Somebody must have hacked into my social media account," e.g. 1 answer
"Sorry for my late reply; your message was in my spam folder," maybe 1 answer
"This crossword was sooooooooooo uplifting, Ross!!!!!," maybe 1 answer
"This tastes delicious!," maybe 1 answer
"Traffic was terrible," maybe 1 answer
"You've hardly aged a bit," usually 1 answer
A-___ (abnormal heart rhythm, for short) 1 answer
Bit of dishonesty 1 answer
Bit of fudge? 1 answer
Bit of truth-stretching 1 answer
Casual invention 1 answer
Cook up a whopper jr.? (In case you missed this one last Monday) 1 answer
Create fiction? 1 answer
Do a little stretching? 1 answer
Do some making up 1 answer
Embellishment, perhaps 1 answer
Forgivable invention 1 answer
Fudge a fact 1 answer
Fudging of fact 1 answer
Harmless lie 1 answer
Inconsequential invention 1 answer
Inconsequential lie 1 answer
Innocent lie. 1 answer
Innocuous falsehood 1 answer
Invention of little consequence 1 answer
It may be said while crossing the fingers 1 answer
It's more than a stretch 1 answer
It's not a bad lie 1 answer
It's not a very big story 1 answer
It's not quite a whopper 1 answer
It's petty but misleading 1 answer
Kid's story 1 answer
Kinda-tall tale 1 answer
Small white lie 1 answer
Little liar's lapse 1 answer
Little lie 1 answer
Little story 1 answer
Little untruth 1 answer
Harmless untruth told to spare feelings 1 answer
Low-key lie 1 answer
Mild untruth 1 answer
Mini-whopper 1 answer
Minor falsehood 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
AARE
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with FIB (5)

Whose should it be? I had quite forgotten that I had it.” “What a dreadful fib, Frank!” “I tell you I had forgotten it!” he said, loudly.
Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992
She was determined to assert her independence, and if she stooped to fib about the Hepburn picnic it was chiefly from the secretive instinct that made her dread the profanation of her happiness.
Summer Edith Wharton 2006
Even in his first moment of exasperation it struck him as characteristic that she should not have padded her postponement with a fib.
The Reef Edith Wharton 1995
Her clumsy fib had let him see that she had something to conceal; and she was sure he had a score to settle with her.
The house of Mirth Edith Wharton 1995
The sight seemed to touch him very much, for suddenly stooping down, he asked in a tone that meant a great deal, “Heart’s dearest, why do you cry?” Now, if Jo had not been new to this sort of thing she would have said she wasn’t crying, had a cold in her head, or told any other feminine fib proper to the occasion.
Little Women Louisa May Alcott 1996

Quotes with FIB (3)

Shouts of dismay rose as the red flesh splattered against the table. It was only a tomato, but one would think I was pulping a decaying heart by the noise the big, strong FIB officers were making.
Kim Harrison Dead Witch Walking
You took your clothes off?""You didn't notice?""No! Jeez Louise, I don't even know you.""If you look under the covers, you'll know me better.""I don't want to know you better!""That's a big fib," Diesel said.
Janet Evanovich Wicked Appetite
Without direction, the respiratory technician goes to the head of the bed. She takes the tubing, attaches it to the oxygen, and turns it on as high as it will go. She provides a seal with her hand cupped over the plastic mask, over the nose and mouth of the toddler, and methodically provides oxygenated air. Doyle’s tiny chest rises and falls while I listen with my stethoscope. I am reaching for another breathing tube.“Fib!” Dr. Pedras feels for a pulse while another places gelled pads on her chest.
Ruth McLeod-Kearns Love, Loss, Trauma
Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Slate, The Atlantic, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 236 times in crossword archives (1954–2025).