barney

¹

[ bahr-nee ]

noun

, plural bar·neys.

1. Informal.
   1. an argument.
   2. a prizefight.
   3. a fight or brawl.
   4. a blunder or mistake.
2. a small locomotive used in mining and logging.
3. Movie Slang. a heavily padded cover for a camera, used to reduce the camera noise so that it will not be picked up by the sound-recording equipment.

Barney

²

[ bahr-nee ]

noun

1. a first name, form of Bernard.

barney

/ ˈbɑːnɪ /

noun

1. a noisy argument

verb

1. to argue or quarrel

Word History and Origins

Origin of barney¹

First recorded in 1860–65; perhaps special uses of Barney

Word History and Origins

Origin of barney¹

C19: of unknown origin

Example Sentences

There, Babitz found the ideal milieu for her free-form libertinism, sharing pitchers of Schlitz at Barney’s Beanery with the emergent artists of the decade — Ed Ruscha, Billy Al Bengston, Larry Bell — and famously posed nude while playing chess with Marcel Duchamp at a local art museum in 1963.

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She went on to travel throughout the United States and around the world, appearing on preschool TV shows including “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood” and “Barney & Friends.”

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“I would say a good, like, five seconds,” Addison said Tuesday of a wild play that required the ball to bounce off Barney’s knee before Moore secured it with a last-second lunge at UCLA’s 13-yard line.

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Barney, who operated a group of for-profit colleges for years, is a noted proponent of Ayn Rand’s philosphy of objectivism.

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On his website, Barney said he supports Trump because he approaches the job of president “as a businessman, not a politician.”

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