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barbie

noun
/bɑː(ɹ)bi//ˈbɑɹbi/US/ˈbɑːbi/UK

Etymology

Named for Barbara Handler-Segal, daughter of Mattel co-founder Elliot Handler, in 1959.

  1. derived from βάρβαρος — “strange, foreign”
  2. derived from Barbara
  3. suffixed as barbie — “Barbara + ie”

Definitions

  1. A barbecue (apparatus for grilling).

  2. A barbecue (event

    A barbecue (event: cookout).

  3. A barbiturate.

    • “At nights,” she says, “we were both in our own little worlds, him with his alcohol and me with my barbies.”
    • Then one day the King said, / Jules, you're grounded. / Absolutely grounded. / This is it. So Jules took / barbies, you know, barbiturates, / and he stayed down. Way down. / Grounded like his father said.
  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. A diminutive of the female given name Barbara.

    2. A tall, slender female fashion doll.

      • They discourage their young children from engaging in rough-and-tumble play. One mother said, “I like Hai-Mei quiet. I like her playing Barbies, writing, and singing.”
      • Everything short of the toe-to-toe Truth and Love that comes from real confrontation of individual consciousness is just playing with Barbie dolls.
      • Sarah, who is ten, says she doesn’t play with Barbies anymore, although she takes a certain scientific interest[…].

    3. A beautiful but stupid or shallow young woman.

      • I'm a Barbie girl, in the Barbie world / Life in plastic, it's fantastic / You can brush my hair, undress me everywhere / Imagination, life is your creation

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA