Clues for the word "RIB"
We've had 248 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 958 times in crosswords. It was last seen in New York Times crossword on December 15, 2025.
Definition of rib
- n. - One of the curved bones attached to the vertebral column and supporting the lateral walls of the thorax.
- n. - That which resembles a rib in form or use.
- n. - One of the timbers, or bars of iron or steel, that branch outward and upward from the keel, to support the skin or planking, and give shape and strength to the vessel.
- n. - A ridge, fin, or wing, as on a plate, cylinder, beam, etc., to strengthen or stiffen it.
- n. - One of the rods on which the cover of an umbrella is extended.
- n. - A prominent line or ridge, as in cloth.
- n. - A longitudinal strip of metal uniting the barrels of a double-barreled gun.
- n. - The chief nerve, or one of the chief nerves, of a leaf.
- n. - Any longitudinal ridge in a plant.
- n. - In Gothic vaulting, one of the primary members of the vault. These are strong arches, meeting and crossing one another, dividing the whole space into triangles, which are then filled by vaulted construction of lighter material. Hence, an imitation of one of these in wood, plaster, or the like.
- n. - A projecting mold, or group of moldings, forming with others a pattern, as on a ceiling, ornamental door, or the like.
- n. - Solid coal on the side of a gallery; solid ore in a vein.
- n. - An elongated pillar of ore or coal left as a support.
- n. - A wife; -- in allusion to Eve, as made out of Adam's rib.
- v. t. - To furnish with ribs; to form with rising lines and channels; as, to rib cloth.
- v. t. - To inclose, as with ribs, and protect; to shut in.
Referring Clues
- Tease
- Razz
- Barbecued treat
- Sticking spot?
- Poke fun at
- Josh
- Costa, anatomically
- Umbrella part
- Eve's beginning
- Kid
- Part of a cage
- Chest protector?
- Chest protector
- Barbecue offering
- Corduroy feature
- Barbecue bit
- "Spare" item at a barbecue
- Part of many cages
- Thorax protector
- Skeleton part
- "Spare" part of the body
- Eve's origin
- Pick on, in a way
- Bone in a cage?
- Adam's donation
- Oft-barbecued cut of meat
- Bone near the diaphragm
- Corporal cage component
- Cage bone
- Eve's start
- Eve, originally?
- ___-tickler
- Adam gave up one
- Umbrella stiffener
- Something to tickle?
- Needle
- ___-tickler (funny joke)
- Wife, jocularly
- Lung protector
- "Spare" thing at a barbecue
- Trunk part
- See 61-Across
- Leaf vein
- Sticking point?
- It can be true or false
- Make fun of
- Part of some cages
- Taunt gently
- Eve's genesis
- Bone in a cage
- "Spare" meat
- Beef cut
- Eve starter
- Adam's contribution
- Cookout cut
- What Eve was formed from
- Barbecue piece
- Bit of barbecue
- Barbecue morsel
- Certain wood source
- Adam's missing part
- Umbrella component
- What Eve was created from
- Adam's spare part
- Spare body part?
- Chris Rock's order in "I'm Gonna Git You Sucka"
- Ridicule
- Item in one's chest
- Poke fun
- Ship's crosspiece
- Type of cage
- Barbecue treat
- "Spare" part
- Bone that's part of a "cage"
- Curved bone
- Give the business to
- Gently roast ... or something that's roasted
- Pick on
- Messy barbecue morsel
- Cage piece
- Spare bone?
- Spare part?
- Cage component
- Vault part
- Barbecue item
- Cut of beef
- ___-eye steak
- Item kept in a chest?
- Kind of cage
- Roast slightly
- Barbecued bit
- Corduroy ridge
- Chest part
- Chest bone
- Umbrella feature
- Eve, originally
- Cage part
- Umbrella-frame part
- It could be spare!
- Vault arch
- Cut of meat
- 'Spare' part
- BBQ bit
- Skeleton bit
- Tease in jest
- Genesis bone
- You might brush barbecue sauce on one
- Word that can be inserted in "mound" to make a synonym for "stagnant"
- BBQ meat bit
- Umbrella spoke
- Curved meat treat
- One of a human's 24
- Lightly roast
- BBQ serving
- One of 24 in a "cage"
- Barbecue serving
- Component of a certain cage
- Slab unit, on a menu
- One in a cage
- Tidbit often served barbecue-style
- Lightly tease
- Kind of roast
- Bit of BBQ
- Baby-back goodie
- "Spare" cut of meat
- Chestbone
- With 24-Across, barbecue finger stainer
- "Spare" bone
- Arched bone
- Neuralgia : nerve :: costalgia : ___
- Part of a barbecued "rack"
- Type of steak
- With 18-Down, hearty cut of beef
- ___ cage
- "Adam's ___"
- Leaf's vein
- Trunk bone
- Part of a supporting cage
- Part of a human's cage
- Type of joint, in more ways than one
- Tease gently
- Sternum neighbor
- BBQ morsel
- Barbecued morsel
- Part of a certain cage
- BBQ piece
- "Baby back" barbecue bit
- One in a rack
- Barbecue munchie
- Barbecued item
- Barbecue slab unit
- Gentle tease
- Body part
- Skeletal bit
- Barbeque tidbit
- Leaf part
- Adam's loss
- Mock
- Torso bone
- Bone in the chest
- Barbecue spare ___
- Eve was created from one, in the Bible
- Barbecued bone
- Adam donated one
- Word after spare or floating
- Messy morsel at a barbecue
- Spare bit?
- "Spare" picnic item
- Barbecue meat
- Floating ___
- Melanie Doane "Adam's ___"
- Part of a leaf
- Might break one in the mosh pit
- Rag and Bone
- Bone
- In such a cage, some birds would rise!
- Bone - tease
- Had Adam a spare one?
- Bit of 32-Across
- One of a human's two dozen
- Bone of the chest
- Tickler's target
- Chest-protecting bone
- Curved chest bone
- Type of bone or joint?
- Cookout morsel
- Barbecue tidbit
- Adam's donation to Eve
- Chest stabilizer
- Bone seen in X-rays
- Lung-protecting bone
- Barbecued piece
- Part of Adam from which Eve was fashioned
- Heckle
- Adam's spare one?
- Celery piece
- BBQ slab unit
- Type of tickler
- Part of a barbecue rack
- Tease one in a cage?
- Roast a bit
- BBQ slab item
- Often tickled bone?
- With 52 Down, beef dinner
- Any of 24 in a cage
- Barbecue bone
- "Spare" body part?
- Metal umbrella part
- Gently razz
- Had Adam a spare one?
- Tease a bit horribly?
- Thorax bone
- Messy BBQ item
- Tease, ridicule
- One of two dozen in the body
- Playfully taunt
- A terrible tease?
- It's in your trunk
- "Baby back" morsel
- Part of an anatomical cage
- Meaty barbecue item
- Piece of barbecue meat
- Spare bone?
- Strengthening crosspiece
- Part of a keel
- Piece of barbecue
- Bone that can be "true" or "false"
- "Spare" barbecue thing
- Bone near the serratus anterior
- Bone in the torso
- Component of a cage, naturally
- "Spare" item
- Piece of BBQ
- Costa, to a botanist
- Bone to pick at dinner, say
- One of 24 in the human skeleton
- Barbecue spare thing
- Saguaro segment
- Piece of meat in galbi-jjim
- Celery stalk
- Body part used to create Eve
- Meaty barbecue goodie
- Spare thing with sauce?
- Piece of an edible "rack"
- Barbecue bite with a bone
- Bit of BBQ meat
- Barbecued goodie
- Short ___ (beef cut)
Last Seen In
- New York Times - December 15, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - December 13, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - December 11, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - December 08, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - December 07, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - December 02, 2025
- Your Life Choices - November 30, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - November 27, 2025
- New York Times - November 21, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - November 05, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - October 24, 2025
- Daily American - October 23, 2025
- New York Times - October 20, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - October 14, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - October 09, 2025
- Mirror Mini - October 05, 2025
- Daily American - October 03, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - September 26, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - September 14, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - September 05, 2025
- Your Life Choices - September 05, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - August 19, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - July 31, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - July 28, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - July 28, 2025
- Your Life Choices - July 24, 2025
- Daily American - July 23, 2025
- Your Life Choices - July 13, 2025
- Mirror Daily - July 09, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - July 08, 2025
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