Usually means: Imprisoned, confined in a jail.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. behind bars: Merriam-Webster
  2. behind bars: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. behind bars: Collins English Dictionary
  4. behind bars: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. behind bars: Wiktionary
  6. behind bars: Dictionary.com
  7. Behind Bars (Slick Rick album), Behind Bars (Slick Rick song), Behind Bars: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. behind bars: TheFreeDictionary.com
  9. behind bars: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. behind bars: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. behind bars: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. behind bars: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

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  1. behind bars: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. behind bars: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wikipedia (Behind Bars)

noun:  the third studio album by the British-American rapper Slick Rick, released in 1994 on Def Jam Recordings.
noun:  "Behind Bars" is the first single released from Slick Rick's third album, Behind Bars.

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