bars

Etymology

noun

1. plural of bar

noun

1. (sports) An apparatus on which certain gymnastics are performed, especially parallel bars.
   1. (gymnastics) Ellipsis of uneven bars.
   2. (gymnastics) Ellipsis of parallel bars.
2. (sports) An event in gymnastics using bars.
3. (slang) Well-constructed rap lyrics.
   […] mutating into all-star line-ups of emcees spitting hot bars over familiar beats, then to a single crew spitting bars over familiar beats, then eventually to a single crew (or artist) spitting bars over unfamiliar beats. 2021, Jehnie I. Burns, Mixtape Nostalgia: Culture, Memory, and Representation, page 138
   Here was an emcee not only capable of spitting “bars” (good rhymes), but thoughtfully creative in her meditation on Black heterosexual relations. 2022, Shanté Paradigm Smalls, Hip Hop Heresies: Queer Aesthetics in New York City (page 89)

verb

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of bar