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How to pronounce barb in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms dig, gibe, jibe, shaft, shot, slam
Type of input, remark, comment
Has types cheap shot
Type Words
Type of point
Has types fluke
Type Words
Type of fibril, filament, strand
Type Words
Type of modify, alter, change


barbed wire.
Type Words
Type of point

Examples of barb

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Barb takes her military service very seriously and we will definitely miss her.
From the stltoday.com
Barb Freeman, a teacher at Western Avenue Elementary, came to purchase a pumpkin.
From the dailyherald.com
Now a new production picks up the barb-tongued story from Bette Davis'deathbed.
From the haringeyindependent.co.uk
Barb didn't notice her oddity until the day she plucked it from the vine in 1989.
From the stltoday.com
Barb Porter of Perrysburg, who also walks at the mall, was equally unconcerned.
From the toledoblade.com
Barb Hudak from Quilters Corner will present a program on template-free applique.
From the post-gazette.com
Barb Anderson with the trophy bka Interactive won this year for its website work.
From the nzherald.co.nz
Barb Agnew is surrounded by butterflies on the Milwaukee County Grounds on Friday.
From the jsonline.com
Barb raised tomatoes, corn, beans, lettuce, other vegetables and strawberries.
From the stltoday.com
More examples
  • Provide with barbs; "barbed wire"
  • Shot: an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect; "his parting shot was `drop dead'"; "she threw shafts of sarcasm"; "she takes a dig at me every chance she gets"
  • The pointed part of barbed wire
  • A subsidiary point facing opposite from the main point that makes an arrowhead or spear hard to remove
  • One of the parallel filaments projecting from the main shaft of a feather
  • (barbed) capable of wounding; "a barbed compliment"; "a biting aphorism"; "pungent satire"
  • The Broadcasters' Audience Research Board, or BARB, is the organisation that compiles television ratings in the United Kingdom. It was created to replace a previous system, where the BBC and ITV companies compiled their own ratings. ...
  • Barbs are a series of branches fused to the rachis (stem) of a feather. The barbs themselves also have branches called barbules, which have hooks that lock the barbs together.
  • Developed on the Barbary Coast of North Africa, the Barb is a desert horse with great hardiness and stamina. Due to the amount of cross-breeding, it is difficult to find a purebred Barb today. ...