Brewer's: Gib

(g soft). The cut of his gib. (See Jib.)

To hang one's gib.
To be angry, to pout. The lower lip of a horse is called its gib, and so is the beak of a male salmon.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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