Barb or the BARBs or ''variation'' may refer to:

People

Barb (name) Barb is a feminine given name, often a short form (hypocorism) of Barbara. It is also sometimes a surname. People Given name * Barb Bellini (born 1977), Canadian retired volleyball player * Barbara Barb Bond (b. 1962), American former rugby uni ...

, a list of people and fictional characters with the given name or surname * Barb, a term used by fans of

Nicki Minaj Onika Tanya Maraj-Petty (; born December 8, 1982), known professionally as Nicki Minaj ( ), is a Trinidadian-born rapper based in the United States. She is known for her musical versatility, animated Flow (rapping), flow in her rapping, alter e ...

to refer to themselves *

The Barbs The Barbs was a band from Medway, Kent with a non-English member Amy who is from outback NSW Australia. With indie rock and punk-pop influences, the band was never particularly successful in their home country, however gained wider recogni ...

, a band

Places

* Barb, Ontario, Canada * DeKalb, Illinois, USA; nicknamed ''Barb City''

Animals

* Barb (feather), the branches issuing from the rachis of feathers *

Barb (fish) A barb is one of various ray-finned fish species in a non-phylogenetic group, with members in the family Cyprinidae, and especially the genera ''Barbus'' and ''Puntius'', but many others also. They were formerly united with the barbels in the ...

, common name for a range of freshwater fish *

Barb horse The Barb or Berber horse (Berber: ''Ayis Amaziɣ, ⴰⵢⵢⵙ ⴰⵎⴰⵣⵉⴳ''; ) is a North African breed of riding horse with great hardiness and stamina. It is closely associated with the Berber or Amazigh peoples of the Maghreb. It ha ...

, a breed from North Africa *

Barb (pigeon) The Barb (also called the English Barb) is a breed of fancy pigeon developed over many years of selective breeding. Barbs, along with other varieties of domesticated pigeons, are all descendants from the rock pigeon (''a livia''). This breed was ...

, a breed of domestic pigeon *

Australian Kelpie The Australian Kelpie, or simply Kelpie, is an Australian sheepdog capable of mustering and droving with little or no guidance. It is a medium-sized dog and comes in a variety of colours. The Kelpie has been exported throughout the world and is ...

or barb, a breed of dog *

The Barb The Barb (1863–1888) was an Australian bred Thoroughbred racehorse, famed for winning the 1866 Melbourne Cup, the Sydney Cup twice, and other quality races. He was bred by George Lee and foaled in 1863 at Leeholme, near Bathurst, New Sou ...

(1863–1888), Australian Thoroughbred racehorse

Implements

Barding Barding (also spelled ''bard'' or ''barb'') is body armour for war horses. The practice of armoring horses was first extensively developed in antiquity in the eastern kingdoms of Parthia and Pahlava. After the conquests of Alexander the Great ...

or barb, a type of armor for horses * A backward-facing point on a

fish hook A fish hook or fishhook, formerly also called angle (from Old English ''angol'' and Proto-Germanic ''*angulaz''), is a hook used to catch fish either by piercing and embedding onto the inside of the fish mouth (angling) or, more rarely, by impal ...

or similar implement, rendering extraction from the victim's flesh more difficult * A type of pipe fitting called

barb Barb or the BARBs or ''variation'' may refer to: People * Barb (name), a list of people and fictional characters with the given name or surname * Barb, a term used by fans of Nicki Minaj to refer to themselves * The Barbs, a band Places * Barb, ...

, used to connect hosing (the ridges face backward, making insertion easy and removal difficult) * Barb, a shortened version of barbiturate, a drug that acts as a depressant for the central nervous system

Other uses

* , two US Navy submarines *

Wind barb In meteorology, station models are symbolic illustrations showing the weather occurring at a given reporting station. Meteorologists created the station model to fit a number of weather elements into a small space on weather maps. This allows map ...

s for each station on a map of reported weather conditions *

Broadcasters' Audience Research Board The Broadcasters Audience Research Board (BARB) is a British organisation that compiles audience measurement and television ratings in the United Kingdom. It was created in 1981 to replace two previous systems whereby ITV ratings were compil ...

, which compiles television ratings in the United Kingdom *

Berkeley Barb The ''Berkeley Barb'' was a weekly underground newspaper published in Berkeley, California, during the years 1965 to 1980. It was one of the first and most influential of the counterculture newspapers, covering such subjects as the anti-war move ...

or ''The Barb'', an underground newspaper of the late 1960s

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