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The cut of his gib. (See Jib.)
To hang one’s gib. To be angry, to pout. The lower lip of a horse is called its gib, and so is the beak of a male salmon.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.