See also: Bars, BARS, bärs, bårs, Bärs, and bārs

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bars (4)

Pronunciation edit

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈbɑː(ɹ)z/
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  • Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)z

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bars

  1. plural of bar

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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.

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bars

  1. third-person singular simple present indicative of bar

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bars

  1. plural of bar

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Etymology edit

From Proto-Germanic *bardaz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰardʰeh₂.

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bars

  1. beard

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bars c

  1. indefinite genitive singular of bar

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Etymology 1 edit

Borrowed from Low German [Term?].

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bars (comparative barser, superlative meest bars or barst)

  1. stern, strict
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Inflection of bars
uninflected bars
inflected barse
comparative barser
positive comparative superlative
predicative/adverbial bars barser het barst
het barste
indefinite m./f. sing. barse barsere barste
n. sing. bars barser barste
plural barse barsere barste
definite barse barsere barste
partitive bars barsers

Etymology 2 edit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

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bars

  1. plural of bar

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bars m

  1. plural of bar

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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

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bars

  1. Alternative form of bace

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bars

  1. indefinite genitive singular of bar

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bars

  1. past passive indicative of bära