In South Korea, the equivalent for dibs is "찜" (zzim), meaning "I got that".
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In the United Kingdom, Ireland, New Zealand, and Australia, "bags", "tax", "shotgun" or "bagsie" – or variants including "begsie" and "bugsy" – is used for the same effect.
Dibs in Search of Self is a story by clinical psychologist and author Virginia Axline published in 1964.
In Dibs, an account of a child therapy, Virginia Axline considered that perhaps the parents, "quite unconsciously...chose to see Dibs as a mental defective rather than as an intensified personification of their own emotional and social inadequacy".
According to a still more ancient tradition Zeus, perceiving that Ganymede longed for his playmates upon Mount Ida, gave him Eros for a companion and golden dibs with which to play, and even condescended sometimes to join in the game (Apollonius).
"Nose Dibs" is featured in a 2005 episode of " How I Met Your Mother" to determine which person would clean up Ted's vomit after they peer pressured him into doing five shots.
He first came to prominence as a solo performer in the 1990s in New York as one of a group of musicians and songwriters (including Lach, Jeffrey Lewis, Curtis Eller, The Burning Hell, Dibs, Boo Hoo and Beck) who made up the antifolk movement based around the Sidewalk Cafe on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.