The act of harassing someone playfully or maliciously (especially by ridicule)

Usage examples of ribbing.

Despite the gentle ribbing from James he was here because his men were aboard that ship and they had the right to expect his best efforts to aid them.

Not farre of, there was a cleft in the earth, the which continually did cast foorth burning matter, and taking of this, and filling the bottome of the vessel, they did put certaine ginnes and sweet woods which made an inestimable suffumigation, as of the sweetest past, afterwardes closing the same, and putting downe the couer, both partes being holow, and the lipping and ribbing perforated and pearced through the transparent, Christal cleare and bright, they rendered a pleasant and diuers coulered light, by the which through the smal holes the bathes were lightened, and the heate stil incarcerated and interdicted.

Unlike most SEALS, who only took their work seriously, Kos Kosciuszko took life too seriously to accept a ribbing in the proper spirit.

He could take ribbing, could Pesaro, but only so muc Bembol evidently, had gone over the line.

The nervousness he felt and his overcaution had gotten him some good-natured ribbing and derision from his friends.

Two men with beer bellies stood outside a bakery, pitching nickels and ribbing each other.

I just knew asking Nick for help would come at a price, but his ribbing had already worn thin.

Not only were they white, but they carried what appeared to be cricket bats, and not only that, but they also carried what appeared to be cricket balls, and not only that but they wore white ribbing pads round the lower parts of their legs.

Last month, much to Langdon's embarrassment, Boston Magazine had listed him as one of that city's top ten most intriguing people-a dubious honor that made him the brunt of endless ribbing by his Harvard colleagues.

There you were, I mean, if you follow the psychology, and she saw you, and in that impulsive way girls have, she seized the opportunity of ribbing you a bit--just told you a few home truths, I mean to say.

Nor had it stopped the others, most notably Damana and Pampas, from ribbing him about it.

Pointed arches and ribbings had been incised into the natural sandstone.

Whitey Jones, Christine's brother, was a sweet young kid of twenty who never said anything and just smiled and took ribbings without complaint.

Maddy took the ribbing with a good-humored laugh as they moved back into position to take the count.

Besides the furniture, which was austere in design and made of the warm yellow metal, the room contained only a low dais about three meters square, formed by slight exaggerations of the floor ribbing.