bar

Meaning

Noun

1. A solid, more or less rigid object of metal or wood with a uniform cross-section smaller than its length.
2. A solid metal object with uniform (round, square, hexagonal, octagonal or rectangular) cross-section; in the US its smallest dimension is ¹⁄₄ inch or greater, a piece of thinner material being called a strip.
3. A cuboid piece of any solid commodity.
4. A broad shaft, band, or stripe.
5. A long, narrow drawn or printed rectangle, cuboid or cylinder, especially as used in a bar code or a bar chart.
6. Any of various lines used as punctuation or diacritics, such as the pipe ⟨|⟩, fraction bar (as in 12), and strikethrough (as in Ⱥ), formerly (obsolete) including oblique marks such as the slash.
7. The sign indicating that the characteristic of a logarithm is negative, conventionally placed above the digit(s) to show that it applies to the characteristic only and not to the mantissa.
8. A similar sign indicating that the charge on a particle is the negative of its usual value (and that consequently the particle is in fact an antiparticle).
9. A business selling alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises, or the premises themselves; a public house.
10. The counter of such premises.
11. A counter, or simply a cabinet, from which alcoholic drinks are served in a private house or a hotel room.
12. Premises or a counter serving any type of beverage.
13. An informal establishment selling food to be consumed on the premises.
14. An establishment offering cosmetic services.
15. An official order or pronouncement that prohibits some activity.
16. Anything that obstructs, hinders, or prevents; an obstruction; a barrier.
17. A metasyntactic variable representing an unspecified entity, often the second in a series, following foo.
18. A dividing line (physical or notional) in the chamber of a legislature beyond which only members and officials may pass.
19. The railing surrounding the part of a courtroom in which the judges, lawyers, defendants and witnesses stay.
20. The bar exam, the legal licensing exam.
21. Collectively, lawyers or the legal profession; specifically applied to barristers in some countries, but including all lawyers in others.
22. One of an array of bar-shaped symbols that display the level of something, such as wireless signal strength or battery life remaining.
23. A vertical line across a musical staff dividing written music into sections, typically of equal durational value.
24. One of those musical sections.
25. A horizontal pole that must be crossed in the high jump and pole vault.
26. Any level of achievement regarded as a challenge to be overcome.
27. The crossbar.
28. The central divider between the inner and outer table of a backgammon board, where stones are placed if they are hit.
29. An addition to a military medal, on account of a subsequent act.
30. A ridge or succession of ridges of sand or other substance; especially
31. A ridge or succession of ridges of sand or other substance; especially:
32. One of the ordinaries in heraldry; a diminutive of a fess.
33. A city gate, in some British place names.
34. A drilling or tamping rod.
35. A vein or dike crossing a lode.
36. A gatehouse of a castle or fortified town.
37. The part of the crust of a horse's hoof which is bent inwards towards the frog at the heel on each side, and extends into the centre of the sole.
38. The space between the tusks and grinders in the upper jaw of a horse, in which the bit is placed.
39. (slang) A measure of drugs, typically one ounce.
40. (slang) A complimentary reference to a rapper's lyrics, especially when good.

Verb

1. To obstruct the passage of (someone or something).
2. To prohibit.
3. To lock or bolt with a bar.
4. To imprint or paint with bars, to stripe.

Prep

1. Except, other than, besides.
2. Denotes the minimum odds offered on other horses not mentioned by name.

Concepts

bar

pub

block

bolt

obstruct

tavern

rod

barrier

saloon

pole

prevent

hinder

rail

obstacle

latch

impede

block up

counter

stick

stop

staff

exclude

ingot

forbid

shaft

measure

inhibit

spar

public house

barricade

prohibit

beam

debar

taproom

stake

ban

stripe

block off

blockade

barroom

impediment

buffet

handle

stem

hasp

clog

shut

cocktail lounge

hurdle

ginmill

cake

stave

restaurant

hindrance

lock

halt

keep out

banish

relegate

interdict

crowbar

lever

inn

check

bar line

beer hall

baton

club

fence

obstruction

crosspiece

bar-room

shut out

prop

strut

support

thrust

forestall

retard

trammel

deter

oppose

wall

refreshment room

pin

court

prevention

streak

legal community

legal profession

abate

alehouse

strip

except

nightclub

beerhouse

disallow

lump

rope

wood

ferule

perch

tool bar

post

band

taboo

crossbeam

deny

refuse

crossbar

shoal

boom

jam

occlude

staunch

bannister

bass

cane

fishing rod

cross out

dam

delete

strike out

hotel

hazard

lock out

drinking establishment

be in the way

keep from

encumber

divert

sidetrack

turn away

witness-stand

balustrade

railing

separate

close

fasten

veto

estop

reject

foreclose

metal

night club

cylinder

entanglement

resistance

lunchroom

lunch counter

wooden bolt

etc.

sold by the cake

ale-house

rule out

cabaret

discotheque

shop

barrister

lawyer

boozer

dike

dram-shop

gin-shop

interception

leg

mug-house

overslaugh

pot-house

ripple

drawback

b

barometer

barometric

barrel

barring

subject

without prejudice

difficulty

pale

hold back

tree

daunt

demoralize

discountenance

discourage

dishearten

dispirit

cumber

preclude

bottleneck

drag

let

jemmy

keystone

liquor store

bandy

crook

drub

truncheon

verge

walking stick

wand

tally

arbor

cutter

cutter arbor

cutter holder

knife back

knife carrier

toolbar

rule

catch pin

gag lever post

stop lever

brace

stay

billot

tape

fence gate

grid mesh

slug

barstock

rods and bars

cross tie

bar drill

concrete iron

concrete reinforced bar

concrete reinforcement bar

concrete reinforcing bars

rebar

reinforced bar

reinforcing steel

reinforcing steel reinforcement

steel bar

steel reinforcement

pressure

canteen

wine cellar

salon

advocacy

block the way

public bar

rock

snag

lath

grate

estaminet

gin mill

cross

arrest

avert

baffle

bilk

block out

cramp

deflect

embarrass

foil

forefend

forfend

frustrate

head off

help

incapacitate

obviate

queer

restrain

scotch

spoil

stymie

stymy

thwart

hang-up

inhibition

trap block

sand bar

sandbank

seif dune

grating

dive

honky-tonk

jook

jook house

jook joint

juke house

juke joint

abjure

abnegate

contradict

disavow

disclaim

disown

embargo

negate

nix

outlaw

proscribe

recant

banning

forbiddance

forbidding

injunction

interdiction

negation

prohibition

proscription

coulisse

shallow

bit

bite

cut

hunk

piece

scrap

section

snatch

joist

blackjack

cosh

stringer

transom

traverse

balance beam

data track

florist’s willow

goat willow

pussy willow

track

clog up

beat

coop up

bung

choke up

land up

lug

plug

screen

stanch

stopper

stopple

stuff

tampon

restriction

partition

brasserie

rung

bar association

slab

lunch room

girder

fastening

catch

cafeteria

drinking place

horninʼ region

door bolt

apart from

aside from

beyond

but

except for

outside of

save

short of

pipe symbol

barrulet

office

doorsill

doorstep

column

hay

m.j.

Columbian

Ghana

Indian hemp

Juanita

Kentucky blue

Lucas

Mary

Mary Ann

Mary Jane

Meg

Rose Marie

airplane

bud

ashes

baby

bale

bash

blonde

blue sage

boo

broccoli

burrito

charge

cheeba

churus

coli

crazy weed

dagga

dew

ding

ditch

djamba

endo

fir

fine stuff

flower

fu

funk

gage

gange

gangster

gash

gauge

grass

grata

green goddess

greeter

grefa

greta

grifa

griff

has

hemp

herb

herba

homegrown

hooch

kali

kaya

kilter

kind

lima

limbo

loaf

lobo

loco

locoweed

m.o.

machinery

macon

mota

mother

moto

pat

pod

poke

pot

red cross

red dirt

reefer

root

salt and pepper

scissors

seeds

sen

sess

shake

skunk

stack

stems

stink weed

supergrass

thirteen

thumb

torch

wheat

yeh

yerba

magic smoke

doobie

moocah

cochornis

Chicago green

Colorado cocktail

pocket rocket

muggles

love weed

viper's weed

chira

llesca

marley

dona Juana

gauge butt

aunt Mary

African bush

giggle smoke

Columbus black

drag weed

white-haired lady

esra

yellow submarine

jive stick

Pakistani black

lubage

mor a grifa

mooca

bullyon

don Jem

giggle weed

snop

duby

cosa

messorole

dawamesk

Texas tea

frajo

jay smoke

kiff

grass brownies

mooster

mutah

righteous bush

flower tops

gunja

Wacky terbacky

laughing grass

potten bush

killer weed

gunga

pretendo

durog

coliflor tostao

yesco

kgb

mutha

pretendica

sezz

fraho

sasfras

kumba

griffa

Mary weaver

dubbe

laughing weed

bo-bo

hanhich

zambi

pakalolo

sweet Lucy

rasta weed

mohasky

m.u.

Mary Jonas

wacky weed

bammy

queen Ann's lace

modams

canamo

draf weed

splim

Panama gold

Meggie

cheeo

dry high

Acapulco red

baby bhang

gunney

Panama cut

p.r.

smoke Canada

diambista

butter flower

African black

yesca

dinkie dow

manhattan silver

joy smoke

lakbay diva

vipe

canappa

Mary and Johnny

cavite all star

Indian boy

mootie

crying weed

cannabis tea

takkouri

rainy day woman

o.j.

burnie

muggie

Mexican red

griffo

moota

mootos

blowing smoke

siddi

lamb's bread

good giggles

bobo bush

black bart

black gunion

funny staff

railroad weed

bambalacha

ghanja

tex-mex

gungun

taima

doradilla

Mary Warner

yen pop

Texas pot

dona Juanita

chillums

Canadian black

duros

sugar weed

griefo

santa Marta

gold star

weed tea

sinse

light stuff

jolly green

carmabis

lock up

tab

customs house

implicate

involve

close up

obturate

beer parlour

expel

ostracize

ostracise

lattice

night-club

liquor shop

Pronounced as (IPA)

/bɑː/

Etymology

From Middle English barre, from Old French barre (“beam, bar, gate, barrier”), from Vulgar Latin *barra, of uncertain origin. Doublet of barre.

Sentences

We met Alexander and the bar and had a great time last night .