Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Barbed wire.
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- noun Alternative spelling of
barbed wire .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun strong wire with barbs at regular intervals used to prevent passage
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Examples
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Years ago when controlled fires and cows ran free, you could move thru the woods and now there's barbwire and thick brush.
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Democrats had nothing to do with that mess other than being victimized by being locked up without charges in those barbwire surrounded refugee pens.
Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off 2009
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Democrats had nothing to do with that mess other than being victimized by being locked up without charges in those barbwire surrounded refugee pens.
Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off 2009
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Years ago when controlled fires and cows ran free, you could move thru the woods and now there's barbwire and thick brush.
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Democrats had nothing to do with that mess other than being victimized by being locked up without charges in those barbwire surrounded refugee pens.
Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off 2009
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Behind barbwire the pasture made a chain of starlit humps.
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We should put fence and barbwire around Washington DC and just call it a prison.
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We should put fence and barbwire around Washington DC and just call it a prison.
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And for the office drone who scaled barbwire fences late at night to steal the excess fat of women and absorbed grueling punches in Fight Club.
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He woke again as the jeep pulled through a gate in a high barbwire fence, past a white line of barracks and up to a squat gray building.
Nothing in the World (an excerpt) Roy Kesey 2011
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