barbed wire

1. 1.

   strong wire with barbs at regular intervals used to prevent passage

   Synonymsbarbwire

   Broaderwire

   Narrowerconcertina

   Partsbarb

Questions about barbed wire

What does barbed wire mean?

barbed wire means "strong wire with barbs at regular intervals used to prevent passage".

What is another word for barbed wire?

Close synonyms include barbwire. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is barbed wire a common word?

barbed wire is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.