verb
- providing an excuse or justification for someone’s actions or whereabouts
Usage: informal
Examples
- She was alibiing for her brother when the police questioned her.
- Stop alibiing for him – he needs to take responsibility.
- The witness was clearly alibiing for the suspect.
- His friends kept alibiing his poor behavior at work.
- The mother was alibiing her son’s absence from school.
- They were alibiing each other’s stories to avoid trouble.