ALL meanings of barney
bar·ney
B b - noun barney a noisy argument 3
- verb barney to argue or quarrel 3
- noun barney a loud argument or quarrel; altercation 3
- noun barney (UK, Australia, slang) A noisy argument. 1
- noun plural barney Informal. an argument. a prizefight. a fight or brawl. a blunder or mistake. 1
- noun plural barney a small locomotive used in mining and logging. 1
- noun plural barney Movie Slang. a heavily padded cover for a camera, used to reduce the camera noise so that it will not be picked up by the sound-recording equipment. 1
- noun barney Berna Eli [bur-nuh] /ˈbɜr nə/ (Show IPA), ("Barney") 1878–1946, U.S. racing-car driver. 1
- noun Technical meaning of barney In Commonwealth hackish, "barney" is to fred as bar is to foo. That is, people who commonly use "fred" as their first metasyntactic variable will often use "barney" second. The reference is, of course, to Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble in the Flintstones cartoons. 1
- noun barney argument, quarrel 1
- noun barney (Britain, Australia, Cockney rhyming slang) A noisy argument. 0
- noun barney (Britain, Australia, Cockney rhyming slang) A minor physical fight. 0
- noun barney (US, pejorative slang) A police officer, usually one perceived as inferior or overzealous. 0
- verb barney (Britain, Australia, Cockney rhyming slang) To argue, to quarrel. 0