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reeb

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reeb is a noun meaning “Beer” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-E-E-B and has one syllable, and it appears about once in every 35 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of reeb is reebs.

What does reeb mean?

noun

  1. 1

    obsoleteBeer.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce reeb?

    Reeb has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

    Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

    How common is reeb?

    Reeb appears about once in every 35 million words in written English, the 182,517th most frequent word form in the list.

    Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

    Where does reeb come from?

    First appeared in the UK in the 19th century. Back slang for beer.

    Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).