bars

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

English

bars (4)

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈbɑː(ɹ)z/
  • (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.

Noun

bars

  1. beard

Danish

Noun

bars c

  1. indefinite genitive singular of bar

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bɑrs/
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: bars
  • Rhymes: -ɑrs

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Low German [Term?].

Adjective

bars (comparative barser, superlative meest bars or barst)

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

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

bars

  1. plural of bar

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /baʁ/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -aʁ

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

Middle English

Noun

bars

  1. Alternative form of bace

Swedish

Noun

bars

  1. indefinite genitive singular of bar

Verb

bars

  1. past passive indicative of bära
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