Usually means: Sharp point projecting in reverse.
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  1. barb: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. barb, barb: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. barb, barb: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. barb: Collins English Dictionary
  5. barb: Vocabulary.com
  6. Barb, barb: Wordnik
  7. barb: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Barb, barb: Wiktionary
  9. barb: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. barb: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. barb: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Barb, barb: Dictionary.com
  13. barb: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. barb: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. BARB, Barb (disambiguation), Barb (fish), Barb (horse), Barb (name), Barb: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Barb: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. barb: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. barb: Rhymezone
  19. barb: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. barb: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. BARB: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. Barb, Barb: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. barb: Free Dictionary
  24. barb: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. barb: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. barb: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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  1. barb-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements
  2. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

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  1. BARB: Netlingo
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  2. -barb, barb: Medical dictionary

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  1. BARB: Acronym Finder
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  3. Barb: The Orchid Lady's Illustrated Orchid Encyclopedia

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  1. barb, barb, barb: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Barb: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  3. barb: Urban Dictionary

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  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)

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noun:  The point that stands backward in an arrow, fishhook, etc., to prevent it from being easily extracted. Hence: Anything which stands out with a sharp point obliquely or crosswise to something else.
noun:  (figuratively) A hurtful or disparaging remark.
noun:  A beard, or that which resembles it, or grows in the place of it.
noun:  (ornithology) One of the many side branches of a feather, which collectively constitute the vane.
noun:  (ichthyology) Any of various species of freshwater carp-like fish that have barbels and belong to the cyprinid family.
noun:  (US) The sciaenid fish Menticirrhus americanus, found along the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of the United States.
noun:  (botany) A hair or bristle ending in a double hook.
noun:  (obsolete) A muffler, worn by nuns and mourners.
noun:  Paps, or little projections, of the mucous membrane, which mark the opening of the submaxillary glands under the tongue in horses and cattle. The name is mostly applied when the barbs are inflamed and swollen.
noun:  (obsolete) A bit for a horse.
noun:  A plastic fastener, shaped roughly like a capital I (with serifs), used to attach socks etc. to their packaging.
verb:  To furnish with barbs, or with that which will hold or hurt like barbs, as an arrow, fishhook, spear, etc.
verb:  (Nigeria) To cut (hair).
verb:  (obsolete) To shave or dress the beard of.
verb:  (obsolete) To clip; to mow.
noun:  The Barbary horse, a superior breed introduced from Barbary into Spain by the Moors.
noun:  A blackish or dun variety of pigeon, originally brought from Barbary.
noun:  (informal, pharmacology) A barbiturate.
noun:  Armor for a horse.
verb:  To cover a horse in armor.
noun:  A diminutive of the female given name Barbara.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  (slang) A fan of American rapper and singer Nicki Minaj.

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