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When I got pulled over, the police officer gave me a speeding ticket so i began to gibe him a little so he then gave me another ticket for a cracked tail light.

My boyfriend broke up with me because I kept referring to his private parts as a cute little quip.

I don't think "cute" in any context is insulting, unless it's a gibe against someone's masculinity. If you write something and someone calls...

...the officer said. 6. Heathcliffe is a dour character because he knows that Catherine...she walked by. 9. You re ugly and stupid! gibed the little girl to her brother. 10. The guise...

The Purdue University Owl is a great grammar resource: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/598/01/

In the last fifty years, the population has increased by 10,000,000. A and B sound like you refer to the next fifty years from now, so then the rest doesn't gibe . C is fine, D doesn't let the...

Correct! you have used the word correctly. You get a green tick and a pat on the back, Definitions of gibe on the Web: jeer or taunt derisively, as in : "I would never gibe my teacher because it's unkind".

The others have advised you to use a dictionary. I would like to encourage you to use a thesaurus also cause it gives you examples of the words you do not understand. Try www.dictionary.com and www.thesaurus.com