J-bar lift

[ jey-bahr ]

/ ˈdʒeɪˌbɑr /

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noun

a ski lift having a J-shaped bar against which a skier leans in an upright position while being pulled up the slope.

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Also called J-bar.

Origin of J-bar lift

First recorded in 1950–55

Words nearby J-bar lift

jazz shoe, jazz singer, jazz up, jazzwoman, jazzy, J-bar lift, JC, J.C.B., JCC, J.C.D., JCI

How to use J-bar lift in a sentence

For every nanosecond that I miraculously lift off the ground, I land with an inordinately loud thud.
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I took out my knife, my Ka-Bar, and knocked his teeth out, but they fell into his throat.
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I meet Otis J. the night he arrives at “The Castle,” a West Harlem halfway house for newly-released convicts.
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J Crew did not give back the money it incidentally made off of Mrs. Obama.
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I was an Innkeeper, who loved to carouse; J was a Joiner, and built up a house.
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The hopes of a man that is void of understanding are vain and deceitful: and dreams lift up fools.
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But you will find most colleges and most college societies bar religious instruction and discussion.
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Lift up thy hand over the strange nations, that they may see thy power.
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Mais ce n'est pas de merveille; car, comme j'ay dict, ils sont enfans.
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