barb
英[bɑːb]
美[bɑrb]
- vt. 装倒钩于
- n. 箭头鱼钩等的倒钩；伤人的话
- n. (Barb)人名；(英)巴布；(法、罗)巴尔布；(匈)鲍尔布
英英释意
- 1. an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect;
- "his parting shot was `drop dead'"
- "she threw shafts of sarcasm"
- "she takes a dig at me every chance she gets"
- 2. the pointed part of barbed wire
- 3. a subsidiary point facing opposite from the main point that makes an arrowhead or spear hard to remove
- 4. one of the parallel filaments projecting from the main shaft of a feather