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bar stool

bar stool noun: a stool used for sitting, often taller than a chair and usually having a foot rest, commonly placed in bars and in front of kitchen counters.

bar stool: a stool used for sitting, often taller than a chair and usually having a foot rest, commonly placed...
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Noun

bar stool (plural bar stools)

  1. A stool used for sitting, often taller than a chair and usually having a foot rest, commonly placed in bars and in front of kitchen counters.
    • Although we are no longer consigned to the bar stool and bottle, we still generally frequent these places to enhance our difficult egos.1973 December 22, W. Emerson Smith, “Friends are Hard to Come By”, in Gay Community News, volume 1, number 27, page 7
    • It's lacking something big this time. What the hell did you expect to find? Aphrodite on a bar stool by your side?1992, “Pieces of the Night”, in Doug Hopkins (lyrics), New Miserable Experience, performed by Gin Blossoms
    Synonyms:
    bar chair
  2. (attributive, metonymically) The male-dominated milieu typically associated with bars, in particular sports bars.
    • barstool conservatism
    • I have many male friends, and they frequently include me in barstool-punditry sessions where they pontificate, often with wisdom and insight, on the issues of the day.2024 July 25, Xochitl Gonzalez, “What the Kamala Harris Doubters Don’t Understand”, in The Atlantic, retrieved 12 Aug 2025

Synonyms of bar stool

Forms of bar stool

pluralbar stools
alternative formbarstool

Questions about bar stool

What does bar stool mean?
Bar stool means a stool used for sitting, often taller than a chair and usually having a foot rest, commonly placed in bars and in front of kitchen counters.
What part of speech is bar stool?
Bar stool is a noun.
What is the plural of bar stool?
The plural of bar stool is bar stools.

Words near bar stool in the dictionary

  1. bar spoons
  2. bar star
  3. bar stars
  4. bar steward
  5. bar stock
  6. bar stool
  7. bar stools
  8. bar syrup
  9. bar table
  10. bar tables
  11. bar tack

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