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

English

bars (4)

Pronunciation

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

Noun

bars

  1. plural of bar

Noun

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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Verb

bars

  1. third-person singular simple present indicative of bar

Anagrams

Catalan

Noun

bars

  1. plural of bar

Crimean Gothic

Etymology

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

Noun

bars

  1. beard

References

  1. ^ https://lrc.la.utexas.edu/eieol/gotol/100#grammar_718

Danish

Noun

bars c

  1. indefinite genitive singular of bar

Dutch

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Low German .

Adjective

bars (comparative barser, superlative meest bars or barst)

  1. stern, strict
Declension
Declension 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 —
Derived terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

bars

  1. plural of bar

French

Pronunciation

Noun

bars m

  1. plural of bar

Anagrams

Latvian

Noun

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

Declension

Declension of bars (1st declension)
singular plural
nominative bars bari
genitive bara baru
dative baram bariem
accusative baru barus
instrumental baru bariem
locative barā baros
vocative bar bari

Middle English

Noun

bars

  1. alternative form of bace

Polish

Etymology

Clipping of bardzo.

Pronunciation

Adverb

bars (not comparable)

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

Further reading

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

Swedish

Noun

bars

  1. indefinite genitive singular of bar

Verb

bars

  1. past passive indicative of bära
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