Gibson

English

Etymology

From Gibb +‎ -son.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɪbsən/

Proper noun

Gibson

1. An English and Scottish patronymic surname transferred from the given name
2. A male given name transferred from the surname transferred from the surname.
3. A small city, the county seat of Glascock County, Georgia, United States.

Noun

Gibson (plural Gibsons)

1. A cocktail made with gin and vermouth, garnished with cocktail onions. [from 20th c.]
   • 1962, Allen Drury, A Shade of Difference:

     "I doubt it, Tommy," the Majority Leader said, coming up behind him so unexpectedly that the little Justice jumped and almost spilled his Gibson.

   • 1968, Ross Macdonald, The Instant Enemy:

     I found Willie in the airport bar drinking a Gibson.

2. An acoustic or electric guitar made by the Gibson company.
   • 2000, Larry Sandberg, The Acoustic Guitar Guide:

     Many older Gibsons have become collector's items: […] But older Gibsons are also good player's guitars.

   • 2008, Rick Rinehart, ‎Amy Rinehart, Dare to Survive: Death, Heartbreak, and Triumph in the Wild, p. xiv:

     We'd like to think that his spirit lives on under the western sky he so loved, strumming his Gibson somewhere and belting out a Woody Guthrie ballad to an audience of coyotes and rabbitbrush.

Derived terms

• Gibsonesque
• Gibsonian
• Port Gibson

References

• “Gibson”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Anagrams

• Gobins, bigons, bingos, boings, obsign