ribbing

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Ribbing the company and its policies are still within the rules, as long as they aren’t attacking individuals or using abusive language.

From New York Times • Apr. 8, 2024

Ribbing each other with anecdotes about how great the other is, they play as much from their new collaborative album, Come on Board, as from Lewis's work.

From The Guardian • Jan. 20, 2011

It had been a voyage that the Grips holm's burly, sympathetic physician, Dr. Hans Ribbing, would like to forget.

From Time Magazine Archive

Ribbing the body of the imitation with tinsel reproduces this effect accurately.

From Old Flies in New Dresses How to Dress Dry Flies with the Wings in the Natural Position and Some New Wet Flies by Walker, Charles Edward

Every effort to move, to win, to alarm, which the eloquence of the soul could inspire, had Arwed lavished upon landmarshal Ribbing.

From Tales from the German. Volume I. Arwed Gyllenstierna by Velde, C. F. van der (Carl Franz)