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Billy Barlows

Billy Barlows is the plural of Billy Barlow.

Meaning of Billy Barlow

Noun

Billy Barlow (plural Billy Barlows)

  1. (UK, obsolete) A clown who performs in the streets.
    • […] for at an election meeting in East Maitland in 1845 William Lipscomb, the local wit, said of the squatters that 'so far from being wealthy, they had produced more Billy Barlows than any other class'.1960, Bill Wannan, A Treasury of Australian Humour, page 40

Questions about Billy Barlows

What is Billy Barlows the plural of?
Billy Barlows is the plural of Billy Barlow.

Words near Billy Barlows in the dictionary

  1. billsticking
  2. Billund
  3. Billups
  4. billy
  5. Billy Barlow
  6. Billy Barlows
  7. Billy Big Balls
  8. Billy Big Bollocks
  9. Billy Bob
  10. Billy bollocks
  11. Billy Boy

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