bars
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bars
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bars pl (plural only)
- (sports) An apparatus on which certain gymnastics are performed, especially parallel bars.
- (gymnastics) Ellipsis of uneven bars.
- (gymnastics) Ellipsis of parallel bars.
- (sports) An event in gymnastics using bars.
- (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.
Derived terms edit
- (gymnastics event): asymmetric bars, parallel bars, uneven bars
Translations edit
gymnastics event
grating, grill, grid
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References edit
- “bars”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- Gymnastics
Verb edit
bars
- third-person singular simple present indicative of bar
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bars
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Etymology edit
From Proto-Germanic *bardaz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰardʰeh₂.
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bars
- beard
- 1589, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, letter:
- Bars. Barba.
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bars c
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Etymology 1 edit
Borrowed from Low German [Term?].
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bars (comparative barser, superlative meest bars or barst)
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Inflection of bars | ||||
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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
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bars m
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bars m (1st declension)
- crowd
- multitude
- crush
- throng
- brood (a group of young birds)
- herd
- pod (a group of whales, dolphins, seals, porpoises or hippopotami)
- plump (a knot or cluster)
- be-in
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Declension of bars (1st declension)
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bars
- Alternative form of bace
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bars
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bars