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Synonyms for barb

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

Synonyms for barb

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

provide with barbs

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Witnesses told how the youngster, from nearby Methil, braked as he started to crash and was thrown into a hedge and on to a barbed wire fence.
Over three hundred of Samuel Johnson's nastier barbs and their meanings are gathered from his various writings under one cover to appeal to modern readers seeking new ways of insulting.
In a 12-month pilot, which ends today, officers have been armed with high-voltage Tasers which fire needle-tipped barbs to deliver a 50,000-volt shock.
Air Logic manufactures a comprehensive line of nylon and polypropylene plastic fittings with barbs for 1/16-, 3/32-, 1/8- or 0.170-in.
Use liquid hand or dishwashing soap to lubricate the splice barbs and hose interiors so they go together smoothly.
The challenge is separating a feather's quill--the shaft--from its barbs, the fibers extending from the quill.
The stiff central core of the feather (the quill) must be stripped of the flexible, interconnected strands of material that emerge from it (the barbs).
Barbs Marshall Siobhan Redmond Alice Inglis Jo Cameron Brown Sadie Kirkwood Ann Seott-Jones Brendan Boyle John Kazek Davie Marshall Vincent Friell Grant Steel Nick Lopez Barbs Marshall (Siobhan Redmond), the boyfriend-hungry and mother-beset Scottish heroine of Liz Lochhead's "Perfect Days," isn't getting any younger, hut one is barely into director John Tiffany's far-from-perfect production before one realizes that Barbs is considerably fresher and more youthful than the play that contains her.
Remember Trisha Echevarria's BFF Barbs in 'Die Beautiful'?
The barbs were so caught in my clothes that I was almost unable to move.
"One especially tricky case involves species where the males have mating organs that are supplied with hooks, barbs, and flukes that cause internal injuries in females during mating.