GIB

See also: gib, GiB, and Gib.

Translingual

Symbol

GIB

(international standards) ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code for Gibraltar.
Synonym: GI (alpha-2)

English

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Noun

GIB (plural GIBs)

(aviation, slang) Initialism of guy in back (someone who sits in the back of a jet).
Synonym: backseater
- 2002, Lynda Twyman Paffrath, Angels Unknown, San Mateo, C.A.: Lightbourne Books, →ISBN, page 257:
  You undoubtedly know that each F-4 Phantom jet carried two pilots in separate, tandem cockpits. Major Dennis Harper was the frontseater and was the AC or Aircraft Commander. Jim was the backseater or the GIB.
- 2007, Mike McCarthy, Phantom Reflections: The Education of an American Fighter Pilot in Vietnam, Westport, C.T., Lonton: Praeger Security International, →ISBN, page 154:
  When I originally checked out in the airplane, we got a few orientation rides in the backseat to familiarize us with the systems, but I was not very knowledgeable about all their intricacies. I came to have a much better appreciation of what the GIBs had to put up with in the back.

Anagrams

BIG, GBI, IGB, big