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barney

/bahr-nee/US // ˈbɑr ni //UK // (ˈbɑːnɪ) informal //

巴尼,巴妮,巴尔尼

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural bar·neys.

    • : Informal. an argument.a prizefight.a fight or brawl.a blunder or mistake.
    • : a small locomotive used in mining and logging.
    • : 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.

Examples

  • The commercials began to look more like colorful Barney episodes, with a club house of kids bopping to Lovin Spoonful covers of “Do You Believe in Magic.”

  • Barney and others have hosted barbecues at Trilogy’s 117 locations throughout several midwestern states.

  • “They’d come from the hospital, and there was no testing at the time,” Barney recalls.

  • “For a week period of time I remember being on telephone at office, at home, outside on patio—talking constantly,” Barney says.

  • This holiday season, Barney will be out at Trilogy facilities.

  • A motley crew of former sailors led by Commodore Joshua Barney mounted the only real resistance to the British.

  • Barney is blown into some nearby rapids and the new expendables are taken as prisoners.

  • This week, text messages were leaked between reality star Tamra Barney and her ex-husband as well as her teen daughter.

  • The messages have proved embarrassing to Barney as she continues an ongoing custody battle.

  • Meanwhile, Barney is living in a completely different show than his former co-patriots.

  • They slept, or appeared to sleep, for some time; nobody stirring but Barney, who rose once or twice to throw coals upon the fire.

  • Oliver retained his stool by the fire; and Barney, wrapped in a blanket, stretched himself on the floor, close outside the fender.

  • There was a game of foot-ball just about to begin, and Barney was conceded to be the best kicker for his size in all Hackerton.

  • Barney did not even wait to ask the name of his prize, but put a crew on board and bade them make all haste to Philadelphia.

  • Captain Barney at once signaled his merchant ships to make all haste up the bay.