1. (noun)rib support resembling the rib of an animal
2. (noun)rib, 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)
3. (noun)rib cut of meat including one or more ribs
8. (verb)ridicule, roast, guy, blackguard, laugh at, jest at, rib, make fun, poke fun 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"