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barbed wire

noun

  1. a wire or strand of wires having small pieces of sharply pointed wire twisted around it at short intervals, used chiefly for fencing in livestock, keeping out trespassers, etc.


barbed wire

noun

  1. strong wire with sharply pointed barbs at close intervals Also called (US)barbwire
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of barbed wire1

First recorded in 1860–65
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The stage was completely transformed into a prison yard, complete with barbed wire fences, bunk beds and outdoor gym equipment.

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At a refugee camp in Greece in 2021, he decried our “age of walls and barbed wire.”

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Enclosed by walls topped with barbed wire, the workers' area of the compound was its own self-contained world, featuring a basketball court, supermarket and restaurants.

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Elen, from Anglesey, said she suffered with pain that felt like "barbed wire around her stomach" before her diagnosis, which she was told was "just period pains".

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According to the Local Democracy Reporting Service, the images used included closed shopfronts covered in graffiti and fences with barbed wire.

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