barbs
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Noun
- An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect
- 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
Verb
- Provide with barbs
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Definitions: 5
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