Usually means: Metal wire with sharp points.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word barbed wire:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. barbed wire: Merriam-Webster
  2. barbed wire: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. barbed wire: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. barbed wire: Collins English Dictionary
  5. barbed wire: Vocabulary.com
  6. barbed-wire, barbed wire: Wordnik
  7. barbed wire: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. barbed wire: Wiktionary
  9. barbed wire: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. barbed wire: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Barbed wire, barbed wire: Dictionary.com
  12. Barbed-wire, Barbed wire: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. barbed wire: Rhymezone
  14. barbed wire: FreeDictionary.org
  15. barbed wire: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. barbed wire: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. barbed wire: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. barbed wire: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. barbed wire: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. barbed wire, barbed wire: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. barbed wire, the barbed wire: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See barbed_wires as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (barbed wire)

noun:  Twisted strands of steel wire, often coated with zinc, having barbs evenly spaced along them; used to construct agricultural and military fences.

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