barber's pole

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   striped pole outside a barbershop

   Broadervisual signal

Questions about barber's pole

What does barber's pole mean?

barber's pole means "striped pole outside a barbershop".

Is barber's pole a common word?

barber's pole is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.