Usually means: Bones supporting chest, aid breathing.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word ribs:

General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. ribs: Merriam-Webster
  2. ribs: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ribs: Collins English Dictionary
  4. ribs: Vocabulary.com
  5. Ribs, ribs: Wordnik
  6. ribs: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. Ribs (1 to 7), Ribs, Ribs: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  8. RIBs, ribs: Wiktionary
  9. ribs: Dictionary.com
  10. ribs: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  11. RIBS, Ribs (band), Ribs (food), Ribs (recordings), Ribs (song), Ribs: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. ribs: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Epicurus.com Spanish Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. RIBS: Investopedia

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ribs: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. ribs: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Ribs: Merck Manuals
  3. Ribs: Anatomy of the Human Body
  4. Ribs: Gray's Anatomy (1918)
  5. ribs: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. RIBS: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. RIBS: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Canoe Terminology (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wikipedia (Ribs)

▸ noun:  alt=Beef ribs on a smoker grill|thumb|225x225px|Beef ribs on a smoker grill
▸ noun:  Ribs (translit. ryobra), also known as music on ribs, jazz on bones, bones or bone music (roentgenizdat), are improvised gramophone recordings made from X-ray films.
▸ noun:  "Ribs" is a song by New Zealand singer-songwriter Lorde, from her debut studio album Pure Heroine.
▸ noun:  (stylized as RIBS) an American space rock/grime band based in Boston, Massachusetts.


Opposite:
spine, sternum, skull, femur, pelvis

Types:
beef, pork, lamb, veal, bison, venison, more...

Phrases:
short ribs, Spare ribs, floating ribs, prime ribs, diagonal ribs, more...

Adjectives:
lower, broken, short, upper, fractured, longitudinal, several, false, cervical, axial, diagonal



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Opposite:
spine, sternum, skull, femur, pelvis

Types:
beef, pork, lamb, veal, bison, venison, more...

Phrases:
short ribs, Spare ribs, floating ribs, prime ribs, diagonal ribs, false ribs, true ribs, beef ribs, sternal ribs, ridge ribs, abdominal ribs, vertebral ribs, vertebrosternal ribs, chuck short ribs, stick to ribs, more...

Adjectives:
lower, broken, short, upper, fractured, longitudinal, several, false, cervical, axial, diagonal



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