gibe - an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect; his parting shot was `drop dead'; she threw shafts of sarcasm; she takes a dig at me every chance she gets. Synonyms: barb, jibe, shaft, dig, slam, shot.
Plymouth City Council Leader hits back against budget cuts. Tudor Evans, Leader of Plymouth City Council, hits back against the cuts the budget brings to Plymouth. Tudor said: Over the last year George Osborne announced more cuts to support for local councils, saying that the gap would be made up by councils getting more business rates by 2020.
a motion of no confidence in corbyn as labour leader was tabled by the mps margaret hodge and ann coffey in a letter to the chairman of the parliamentary labour party on 24 june 2016 hodge said this has been a tumultuous referendum which has been a test of leadership jeremy has failed that test