bar up
Upper Intermediate (B2)neutral
To put metal or wooden bars across a door or window to stop people from getting in or out.
"The shop owner barred up the windows after the neighbourhood experienced a series of break-ins."
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To push this bar up.
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It's another another bar up here.
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You also have anti-roll bar up front there.
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and you're doing just enough to get the bar up,
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which is if you raise the bar up to 80% success,