gibbous \GIB-uhs\, adjective:
- Astronomy. (of a heavenly body) convex at both edges, as the moon when more than half full.
- humpbacked
Gibbous entered English late 14th or early 15th century from the Latin gibbus meaning hump.
Transitive Property
- If A=B, and B=C, then A=C. Used in Geometry.
- If Person A hooks up with Person B, and Person B hooks up with person C, person A has hooked up with person C. This property is hated by most high school/college age persons.
- Definition 2, as a verb. To hook up with someone by the transitive property.
1. Angle XYZ is congruent to angle BAC by the transitive property.
2. I got with Dana yesterday, she got with Joe the day before... Now I've hooked up with Joe by the transitive property... damn.
3. We all unknowingly pulled a massive transitive property by hooking up with Julie.
2. I got with Dana yesterday, she got with Joe the day before... Now I've hooked up with Joe by the transitive property... damn.
3. We all unknowingly pulled a massive transitive property by hooking up with Julie.
Trivia
When it comes to hybrid dogs, what breeds are crossed to create a Chiweenie? How about a Cock-A-Mo? Or a Scoodle?
- Chiweenie is a cross between a Chihuahua and a Dachshund; a Cock-A-Mo, between an American Eskimo and a Cocker Spaniel; and a Scoodle, between a Poodle and a Scottish Terrier.
History
- Piggly Wiggly: the first self-service supermarket opened in Memphis, Tennessee (1916)
- Queen Juliana: popular monarch assumed the throne of the Netherlands, which she retained until 1980 (1948)
- Hendrik Verwoerd: South African prime minister was stabbed to death by a deranged parliamentary messenger in parliament in Cape Town (1966)
- Saint Petersburg: the original name was restored after the Russian city had been Leningrad since 1924 (1991)
- Cal Ripken Jr.: played in his 2,131st consecutive game and broke Lou Gehrig's "unbreakable" record (1995); his streak ended at 2,632 games on September 20, 1998
Birthdays
- Marquis de Lafayette 1757
- Jane Addams 1860
- Otto Kruger 1885
- Joseph P. Kennedy 1888 - bootlegger
- Billy Rose 1899
- Morgan Beatty 1902
- Maxie ‘Slapsie’ Rosenbloom 1904
- Vince DiMaggio 1912
- Jimmy Reed (Matthew James Reed Leland) 1925
- JoAnne Worley 1937
- David Allen Coe 1939
- Brian Smith 1940
- Mel McDaniel 1942
- Swoosie Kurtz 1944
- Roger Waters 1944 - Musician (Pink Floyd)
- Ron Boone 1946
- Jane Curtin 1947
- Claydes Smith 1948 - Musician (Kool & the Gang)
- Banner Thomas 1954 - Musician (Molly Hatchet)
- Joe Smyth 1957 - Musician (Sawyer Brown)
- Jeff Foxworthy 1958
- Michael Winslow 1960
- Perry Bamonte 1960 - Musician (The Cure)
- Paul Waaktaar 1961 - Musician (a-ha)
- Mark Chestnut 1963
- Rosie Perez 1964
- William DuVall 1967 - Musician (Alice in Chains, Comes With The Fall)
- CeCe Peniston 1969
- Darryl Anthony 1969 - Musician (Az Yet)
- Dolores O'Riordan (The Cranberries) 1971
- Justin Whalen 1974
- Nina Persson 1974 - Musician (The Cardigans)
- Foxy Brown 1979



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