bars

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈbɑː(ɹ)z/

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• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)z

bars

1. plural of bar

bars pl (plural only)

1. (sports) An apparatus on which certain gymnastics are performed, especially parallel bars.
   1. (gymnastics) Ellipsis of uneven bars.
   2. (gymnastics) Ellipsis of parallel bars.
2. (sports) An event in gymnastics using bars.
3. (slang) Well-constructed rap lyrics.
   • 2021, Jehnie I. Burns, Mixtape Nostalgia: Culture, Memory, and Representation, page 138:

     […] mutating into all-star line-ups of emcees spitting hot bars over familiar beats, then to a single crew spitting bars over familiar beats, then eventually to a single crew (or artist) spitting bars over unfamiliar beats.

   • '2022, Shanté Paradigm Smalls, Hip Hop Heresies: Queer Aesthetics in New York City (page 89)

     Here was an emcee not only capable of spitting “bars” (good rhymes), but thoughtfully creative in her meditation on Black heterosexual relations.

• (gymnastics event): asymmetric bars, parallel bars, uneven bars

• “bars”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• Gymnastics

bars

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of bar

• ABRs, ARBs, BRAS, arbs, bras, sbar

bars

1. plural of bar

From Proto-Germanic *bardaz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰardʰeh₂. Stearns argues that the spelling is a misprint for unattested *bart.^[1]

bars

1. beard
   • 1589, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, letter:

     Bars. Barba.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

bars c

1. indefinite genitive singular of bar

• IPA^(key): /bɑrs/

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• Hyphenation: bars
• Rhymes: -ɑrs

Borrowed from Low German [Term?].

bars (comparative barser, superlative meest bars or barst)

1. stern, strict

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

bars

1. plural of bar

• IPA^(key): /baʁ/

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• Rhymes: -aʁ

bars m

1. plural of bar

• bras

bars m (1st declension)

1. crowd
2. multitude
3. crush
4. throng
5. brood (a group of young birds)
6. herd
7. pod (a group of whales, dolphins, seals, porpoises or hippopotami)
8. plump (a knot or cluster)
9. be-in

bars

1. alternative form of bace

Clipping of bardzo.

• (Lesser Poland):
  • (Przemyśl) IPA^(key): [ˈbars]

bars (not comparable)

1. (Przemyśl) synonym of bardzo (“very”)

• Antoni Kalina, editor (1898), “bars”, in Lud. Organ Towarzystwa Ludoznawczego we Lwowie (in Polish), volume 4, Lviv: Towarzystwo Ludoznawcze, page 307

bars

1. indefinite genitive singular of bar

bars

1. past passive indicative of bära