To shape, support, or provide something with a rib or ribs.
To tease or make fun of someone in a good-natured way.
He always gets ribbed for his outrageous shirts.
To enclose, as if with ribs, and protect; to shut in.
To leave strips of undisturbed ground between the furrows in ploughing (land).
The action of the verb to rib.
A rib, or the collective ribs, on an object.
An instance of teasing.