• (UK)IPA^(key):/ˈbɑː(ɹ)z/

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• Rhymes:-ɑː(ɹ)z

bars

1. plural ofbar

bars pl (plural only)

1. (sports) Anapparatus on which certain gymnastics are performed, especiallyparallel bars.
   1. (gymnastics)Ellipsis ofuneven bars.
   2. (gymnastics)Ellipsis ofparallel bars.
2. (sports) Anevent ingymnastics using bars.
3. (slang) Well-constructedraplyrics.
   • 2021, Jehnie I. Burns,Mixtape Nostalgia: Culture, Memory, and Representation, page138:

     […] mutating into all-star line-ups of emcees spitting hotbars over familiar beats, then to a single crew spittingbars over familiar beats, then eventually to a single crew (or artist) spittingbars 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”, inOneLook Dictionary Search.
• Gymnastics

bars

1. third-personsingularsimplepresentindicative ofbar

• ABRs,ARBs,BRAS,arbs,bras,sbar

bars

1. plural ofbar

FromProto-Germanic*bardaz, fromProto-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.

     (pleaseadd an English translation of this quotation)

bars c

1. indefinitegenitivesingular ofbar

• IPA^(key):/bɑrs/

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• Hyphenation:bars
• Rhymes:-ɑrs

Borrowed fromLow German[Term?].

bars (comparativebarser,superlativemeest barsorbarst)

1. stern,strict

See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.

bars

1. plural ofbar

• IPA^(key):/baʁ/

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• Rhymes:-aʁ

bars m

1. plural ofbar

• 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 ofbace

Clipping ofbardzo.

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

bars (notcomparable)

1. (Przemyśl)Synonym ofbardzo(“very”)

• Antoni Kalina, editor (1898), “bars”, inLud. Organ Towarzystwa Ludoznawczego we Lwowie (in Polish), volume 4, Lviv: Towarzystwo Ludoznawcze, page307

bars

1. indefinitegenitivesingular ofbar

bars

1. pastpassiveindicative ofbära