noun

• (nautical) A triangular staysail set forward of the foremast. In a sloop (see image) the basic jib reaches back roughly to the level of the mast.
  "Release the line by pulling down and unfurl the jib by pulling on the two jibsheets."
• (nautical, usually with a modifier) Any of a variety of specialty triangular staysails set forward of the foremast.

verb

• (chiefly nautical) To shift, or swing around, as a sail, boom, yard, etc., as in tacking.

noun

• (metonymic, cinematography, film) A crane used for mounting and moving a video camera.
• (slang) A person's face.
  "Whipping around I saw Herman with a stunned expression on his jib."

verb

• (figuratively) To stop doing something, to become reluctant to proceed with an activity.
  "“What say you to the young lady herself?” said Craigengelt; “the finest young woman in all Scotland, one that you used to be so fond of when she was cross, and now she consents to have you, and gives up her engagement with Ravenswood, you are for jibbing. I must say, the devil’s in ye, when ye neither know what you would have nor what you would want.”"