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Barb

proper nounnouncommon in dialogue

  • Australia

A diminutive of the female given name Barbara.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A diminutive of the female given name Barbara.

  2. 2

    A surname.

noun

  1. 1

    slangA fan of American rapper and singer Nicki Minaj.

    Minaj is thrilled to be returning to her legion of Aussie Barbz this October in a brand new full-scale arena show.

    I’m not a Barb, but Nicki Minaj totally made me do a 180 on the whole hating-her-songs-and-general-vibe thing I had going on when I went to review her in concert.

    Lambs and Barbz, remain calm, but Mariah Carey is once again talking about her infamous feud with Nicki Minaj.

Etymology

Clipping of Barbie, from Harajuku Barbie, an alter-ego of Nicki Minaj.

Forms

plural
Barbz, Barbs
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).