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Textual thesaurus for "rib"

(noun) costa

any of the 12 pairs of curved arches of bone extending from the spine to or toward the sternum in humans (and similar bones in most vertebrates)


(verb) jest at, make fun, laugh at, blackguard, guy, poke fun, ridicule, roast

subject to laughter or ridicule

The satirists ridiculed the plans for a new opera house; The students poked fun at the inexperienced teacher; His former students roasted the professor at his 60th birthday