GIB

See also: gib, GiB, and Gib.

Translingual

Symbol

GIB

1. (international standards) ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code for Gibraltar.

   Synonym: GI (alpha-2)

English

Noun

GIB (plural GIBs)

1. (aviation, slang) Initialism of guy in back (someone who sits in the back of a jet).

   Synonym: backseater

   • 2002, Lynda Twyman Paffrath, Angels Unknown, San Mateo, C.A.: Lightbourne Books, →ISBN, page 257:

     You undoubtedly know that each F-4 Phantom jet carried two pilots in separate, tandem cockpits. Major Dennis Harper was the frontseater and was the AC or Aircraft Commander. Jim was the backseater or the GIB.

   • 2007, Mike McCarthy, Phantom Reflections: The Education of an American Fighter Pilot in Vietnam, Westport, C.T., Lonton: Praeger Security International, →ISBN, page 154:

     When I originally checked out in the airplane, we got a few orientation rides in the backseat to familiarize us with the systems, but I was not very knowledgeable about all their intricacies. I came to have a much better appreciation of what the GIBs had to put up with in the back.