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1. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect
   "his parting barb was 'drop dead'";
   - shot, shaft, slam, dig [informal], jibe, gibe
    
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

1. Provide with barbs
   "barbed wire"

Derived forms: barbs, barbed, barbing

Type of: alter, change, comment, fibril, filament, input, modify, point, remark, strand

Part of: arrowhead, barbed wire, barbwire, hook, lance, shaft, spear, vane, web

Encyclopedia: Barb, Ontario