Rather than trying to craft your own Bisset barbs, you can just impress your friends with these Twitter zingers.
Male water striders are clearly adapted for marathon sex: they have hooks and barbs to keep them attached to females.
Cain kept insisting the barbs were “apples and oranges,” turning his answers into fruit salad.
Tyson gave his roast in the form of iconic poetry, drawing on The Iliad, Shakespeare, and Emily Dickinson to deliver his barbs.
Even on the events (all too rare) when Jackson or Lopez (never Tyler) venture into criticism, the barbs barely break the flesh.
Then it seemed as if the barbs had caught in its clothing and held it there.
With hooks, barbs, and glands they cling to the covering of animals.
The barbs carried the harpoon through the air like the wings of a bird.
Afterward the Cave-men fished with harpoons which had barbs on only one side.
Caught in the barbs of the wire, wedged in, the bodies hung suspended.
late 15c., "to clip, mow;" see barb (n.). Meaning "to fit or furnish with barbs" is from 1610s. Related: Barbed; barbing.
late 14c., "barb of an arrow," from Old French barbe (11c.) "beard, beardlike appendage," from Latin barba "beard," perhaps cognate with Old English beard (see beard (n.)).
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Barbiturates (late 1950s+)
