Bar and Jail

Bar

Bar verb - To make stripes on.

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Jail and bar are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Jail" instead a verb "Bar".

Nearby Word: barroom

Jail verb - To put in or as if in prison.

Usage example: threatened to jail the punks if they so much as jaywalked

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Bar and jail are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Bar" instead a verb "Jail".

Nearby Words: jailed, jailer, jailing, jailor

high	high bar	high jail
full	full bar	full jail
special	special bar	special jail
normal	normal bar	normal jail
Other adjectives: regular, alien, small, actual, real, bad, private, new, local, nearby.

On Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, O'Brien, Bashir, and Worf have an off-screen argument about organized labor that somehow escalated into a bar brawl, landing all three in a jail cell.

Source: Bar Brawl
Similarly, the song "Date Rape" by Sublime tells a story of a man who rapes a girl he meets in a bar, goes to jail, and is in turn raped himself, in a sort of poetic justice.

Source: Prison Rape
Idiocracy: When Joe ends up in the future, he goes to jail for not having a bar code tattoo that every citizen is required to wear.

Source: Boxed Crook

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