![]() These are two commercial units on Shandon Street. Maybe they want to discourage the Southsiders from taking out their passports to cross over. Maybe English is not the first language of the business owner and so not a bad guess – it happens. If so, maybe this is how words enter the dictionary. Or maybe they do fit barbs and spikes to their customers…. | barb - definition noun barb noun 1 a point on a hook facing in the opposite direction to the main point, which makes it difficult to pull the hook out. 2 a humorous but hurtful remark. 3 one of the threadlike structures forming a feather's web. verb (barbed, barbing) to fit or provide something with barbs or a barb. See also barbed. |