bar² n See BARLEY OVER and its variants. Home base in a game of hide-and-seek.
   T 199-65 Then when he opens his eyes, there's a certain point, the bar where he starts off from, and when he's out lookin' for you, if you can sneak back there and touch it and say, 'One, two, three, the bar is free!' well, you're free. Bar over, we used to call it. C 68-21 The place where you had to 'blind' was called the bar and the object of the game was for the hidden team to get to the bar before the other team had a chance to find them.

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