Crossword-Solution: BARBS 5 letters, 80 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

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Sharp points on some wire fences 1 answer
Fishhook projections 1 answer
Fodder for unfriendly trades 1 answer
Hook features 1 answer
Hook points 1 answer
Horses related to the Arabs. 1 answer
Linens at throat of nuns' habits. 1 answer
Metallic stickers 1 answer
Parts of fishhooks. 1 answer
Pigeons or horses 1 answer
Points in the opposite direction? 1 answer
Prison fence features 1 answer
Security wire points 1 answer
Sharp points on fishhooks. 1 answer
Sharp points on hooks. 1 answer
Sharp points on ranch fences 1 answer
Livestock fence features 1 answer
Some fish, or fish hook parts 1 answer
Some nasty repartee 1 answer
Stinging comments 1 answer
They make their points known to attempted escapees 1 answer
Things on a cat's penis 1 answer
Unpleasant remarks 1 answer
Verbal digs 1 answer
What hecklers hurl 1 answer
Wildean comments 1 answer
Wire cutters? 1 answer
Wire fence features 1 answer
Wire fence stickers 1 answer
Zingers at roasts 1 answer
Zings 1 answer
Pointed remarks from a witty adversary 1 answer
Beardlike growths. 1 answer
Certain fast horses 1 answer
Caustic statements 1 answer
Caustic remarks 1 answer
Carping comments 1 answer
Fishhook parts 1 answer
Comments that sting 1 answer
"Pointed" remarks 1 answer
"Devil's rope" features 1 answer
EGOT icon, to fans 1 answer
Farm fence features 1 answer
Fence fixtures 1 answer
Fishhook features 1 answer
Snarky comments 2 answers
Some verbal abuse 2 answers
Biting comments 2 answers
Biting remarks 2 answers
Unkind comments 2 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ERAET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with BARBS (5)

Seldom, if ever, had the man any cause to go from home; for, as his wants demanded food, he had only to go a little distance from the lodge, and there, in some particular spot, place his arrows, with their barbs in the ground.
Life On The Mississippi, Complete Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 2006
The ground was soggy and wet beneath us, the trees were full of barbs and spines, the way was monstrous hard.
The Lost Continent C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne 2008
But well I know, to approach they never dare; Lances and spears they poise to hurl at them, Arrows, barbs, darts and javelins in the air.
The Song of Roland Anonymous 1996
Had she not seen him grow pale, and start up under the stinging barbs of irony? Then Mme de Langeais felt the horror of the woman’s appointed lot; a man’s is the active part, a woman must wait passively when she loves.
The Duchesse de Langeais Honore de Balzac 1996
His position as leader made him manager of the Sigma Alpha combination of fraternities and barbs which for six years had dominated the Washington and Jefferson Literary Society.
The Cost David Graham Phillips 1996

Quotes with BARBS (3)

How could I remain unyielding? His words penetrated the flimsy barriers I’d set up around my heart. I’d meant to set up a barbed wire fence, but the barbs ended up being covered with marshmallows. He slipped through my defenses easily. He touched his forehead to my hand, and my marshmallow heart melted.
Colleen Houck
What I aim to do is not so much learn the names of the shreds of creation that flourish in this valley, but to keep myself open to their meanings, which is to try to impress myself at all times with the fullest possible force of their very reality. I want to have things as multiply and intricately as possible present and visible in my mind. Then I might be able to sit on the hill by the burnt books where the starlings fly over, and see not only the starlings, the grass field,…
Annie Dillard Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Fear sticks like a barb in the mind. Someone cold enough to take advantage of it can attach strings to those barbs and make puppets of men and women.
Lance Conrad The Price of Loyalty
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Appears in: Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 113 times in crossword archives (1948–2025).