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bar
noun- a pound UK, 1911
Directly from Romany bar, ultimately Romany bauro (heavy or big); usually in the phrase “half a bar” (until decimalisation in 1971: ten shillings; post-decimalisation: 50p) although inflation seems to have had an effect. - I follow his pound [bet] and raise him half a bar[.] — Derek Raymond (Robin Cook), The Crust on its Uppers, p. 40, 1962
- “Well, we had a syndicate see,” Smedley said, “Half a bar each on Scottish Tartan at Haydock[.] — Troy Kennedy Martin, Z Cars, p. 77, 1962
- I owed Henry half a bar, which left me with thirty bob[.] — John Peter Jones, Feather Pluckers, p. 29, 1964
- Chrismiss hamper worth a hundred bar. Pound a ticket likes. — Irvine Welsh, The State of the Party (Disco Biscuits), p. 38, 1995
- one million dollars US
- — Jim Crotty, How to Talk American, p. 380, 1997
- a package of heroin US
- All I want is the stuff. Hey, wait a minute, momma, I ain’t no petty nigger. Naw, baby, if I was goin’ rip off something, it would be a hell of a lot bigger than a twenty-five dollar bar. — Donald Goines, Crime Partners, p. 43, 1978
- a block of cannabis resin weighing approximately a kilogram US, 1967
Originally so-called for a bar-shaped brick. - used as a name for any variable object US
- The second metasyntactic variable, after FOO. If a hacker needs to invent exactly two names for things, he almost always picks the names “foo” and “bar.” — Guy L. Steele et al., The Hacker’s Dictionary, p. 29, 1983
- an erection UK, 1961
Especially used in the form “have a bar”. - a Xanax pill US
- The defendant told officers he was on three “bars,” which is street slang for Xanax. The prescription medicaiton is typically used to treat anxiety disorders, panic disorders and anxiety caused by depression. — The Port Arthur News (Texas), 22 August 2008
▶ not stand a bar of; not have a bar of
to detest, deny or reject someone or something, to be unable to tolerate someone or something AUSTRALIA, 1933- — G.A. Wilkes, Dictionary of Australian Colloquialisms, p. 16, 1978
▶ not to have a bar of
to refuse to have anything to do with someone of something AUSTRALIA- — Frank Hardy, The yarns of Billy Borker, p. 39, 1965
- But the old Octopus wouldn’t have a bar of it[.] — Frank Hardy, The yarns of Billy Borker, p. 39, 1965
- And I’m sure the Australian battler will not have a bar of the bleatings of “McCarthyism” in a situation which is its very opposite. — Frank Hardy, Hardy’s people, 47 1986
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