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Gib·son

(gĭb′sən)

A dry martini garnished with a small pickled onion.

[From the name Gibson.]

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Gibson

(ˈɡɪbsən)

(Cookery) chiefly US a cocktail consisting of four or more parts dry gin and one part dry vermouth, iced and served with a pickled pearl onion

Gibson

(ˈɡɪbsən)

(Biography) Mel. born 1956, Australian film actor and director: his films include Mad Max (1979), Hamlet (1990), Braveheart (1996; also directed), What Women Want (2000), The Passion of the Christ (2004; director only), and Apocalypto (2006; director and co-writer)

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Gib•son

(ˈgɪb sən)

n.

a dry martini cocktail garnished with a pearl onion.

[1925–30; after the surname Gibson]

Gib•son

(ˈgɪb sən)

n.

1. Althea, born 1927, U.S. tennis player.

2. Charles Dana, 1867–1944, U.S. artist and illustrator.

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Noun	1.	Gibson - United States illustrator remembered for his creation of the `Gibson girl' (1867-1944) C. D. Gibson, Charles Dana Gibson
	2.	Gibson - Australian actor (born in the United States in 1956) Mel Columcille Gerard Gibson, Mel Gibson U.S.A., United States, United States of America, US, USA, America, the States, U.S. - North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776
	3.	Gibson - United States tennis player who was the first Black woman player to win all the major world singles titles (1927-2003) Althea Gibson

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We have only to add that the affairs of the captain have been satisfactorily arranged with the War Department, and that he is actually in service at Fort Gibson, on our western frontier, where we hope he may meet with further opportunities of indulging his peculiar tastes, and of collecting graphic and characteristic details of the great western wilds and their motley inhabitants.

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And then I have made a little purchase within this half year; East Kingham Farm, you must remember the place, where old Gibson used to live.

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John does not at all resemble his father, and I am glad of it: John is like me and like my brothers--he is quite a Gibson. Oh, I wish he would cease tormenting me with letters for money?

Georgiana, when not unburdening her heart to me, spent most of her time in lying on the sofa, fretting about the dulness of the house, and wishing over and over again that her aunt Gibson would send her an invitation up to town.

You are not one of the Gibsons; and yet I know you--that face, and the eyes and forehead, are quiet familiar to me: you are like--why, you are like Jane Eyre!"

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I wouldn't go halves in the toffee and gingerbread on purpose to save the money; and Gibson and Spouncer fought with me because I wouldn't.

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One of the fiction stories about the Gibson hero and the girl whose life he saved, like you read?'

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Althea Gibson basked in a ticker-tape parade in New York a decade before Arthur Ashe won the 1968 US Open.

Finally, America will salute Althea Gibson with US Open statue

Minnesota Timberwolves forward Taj Gibson was fined $25,000 by the NBA on Saturday for aggressively pursuing and directing an obscene gesture at a game official.

NBA: T-Wolves forward fined for rude gesture

President George Manneh Weah has commissioned Liberia's Ambassador to the Court of Saint James, Madam Gurly Teta Gibson.

Pres. Weah Commissions Liberia's Ambassador To Court Of Saint James

Synopsis: "Self-Exposure" is the autobiography of celebrated American art photographer Ralph Gibson. With his 80th birthday on the horizon in January 2019 and a career spanning over 50 years, Gibson is at a point of reflection in his life and work and decided to put pen to paper.

Self-Exposure

Anthony Gibson appeared before magistrates to be sentenced after being found guilty of assaulting the 34-yearold, who does not have the use of her legs after a car crash.