1. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter
   "he drowned his sorrows in whiskey at the bar"
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1. Prevent from entering; keep out
   "He was barred from membership in the club"
   - debar, exclude 
2. Render unsuitable for passage
   - barricade, block, blockade, stop, block off, block up 
3. Expel, as if by official decree
   - banish, relegate 
4. Secure with, or as if with, bars
   "He barred the door"

1. A portable .30 calibre automatic rifle operated by gas pressure and fed by cartridges from a magazine; used by United States troops in World War I and in World War II and in the Korean War
   - Browning automatic rifle

Derived forms: bars, barred, barring

Type of: automatic, automatic rifle, barrier, block, close up, counter, disallow, expel, fasten, fix, forbid, heating element, hinderance, hindrance, impede, impediment, impedimenta, implement, interdict, interference, jam, kick out, machine rifle, marking, musical notation, nix [N. Amer], obstruct, obstructer, obstruction, obstructor, obturate, occlude, pressure unit, profession, prohibit, proscribe, rail, railing, ridge, room, secure, support, throw out, veto

Antonym: unbar

Part of: bars, boozer [Brit], court, courtroom, gin mill [N. Amer], goal, high bar, horizontal bar, parallel bars, pothouse [US], pub [Brit, Cdn], public house [Brit], saloon [Brit], taphouse [archaic], tavern

Encyclopedia: BAR

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