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bar1
interjection 1. a cry indicating that you are 'safe' during a game. Compare barley, barleys, bars.
–noun 2. in chasing games, a place where players are safe from being caught.
Contributor's comments: I agree with the meaning of "bar" as a safety point in a game. I associate it with a game of "tiggy" (which my NSW born wife calls chasey or chasings. Another associated term was "butcher" as in "You can't tig the butcher back!").
Contributor's comments: I grew up in SE Qld and 'bar' was certainly used to refer to a 'safe' area, or also to 'reserve' a place.
Contributor's comments: I grew up in Brisbane in the 1960s. We always used bar to show the pursuer that we were safe and could not be touched.
Contributor's comments: To bar someone is to exclude them, or not to talk to them. For example, I saw Kelly at uni, but I barred her... i.e. I didn't talk to her. It could be like giving someone the cold shoulder, but it is more like a group of people not letting someone in because you don't like something that they did, or something about them.
Contributor's comments: I played chasies in regional NSW, where we said "bar." Some kids said something like "bar lease," which I always thought strange.
Contributor's comments: [in chasing games] That tree is bar (safe). If you touched bar, you would spell it B.A.R.
Contributor's comments: Brisbane kids used the term 'bar' to mean safe during a game.
Contributor's comments: Children playing some games would announce that they were 'bar' when they wanted to take 'time out' for some reason, without suffering a penalty: "Wait. I'm bar while I stop for a drink."
Contributor's comments: [Sydney informant] [Cockylora was a] game similar to British Bulldog, where the player who was "in" was restricted to "tipping" the other players running between two bases or "bar" areas, which were areas where you in which you were safe from being tipped and getting "in".
bar2
verb 1. to convey as a second person on a horse, bicycle or motorcycle.
–noun 2. a ride as a secondary passenger. Compare dink, dinky1, dinky-double, donkey1, double, dub, pug.
bar3
verb to reserve a place, turn, etc.; to 'bags'.
Contributor's comments: I grew up in SE Qld and 'bar' was certainly used to refer to a 'safe' area, or also to 'reserve' a place.
Contributor's comments: I grew up along coastal Queensland from Maryborough north to Ingham and the term "bar" was used in my childhood in reference to reserving (say) your place in a game of rounders e.g. "I bar first bat" or in the context of preventing somebody from playing or carrying out some type of action e.g. "Jimmy you're barred from the next game" or "Steelies are barred in this game of marbles."
bars1
interjection a cry indicating that you are 'safe' during a game. Compare bar1, barley, barleys.
bars2
interjection to reserve a place, turn, etc.; to 'bags'.
Contributor's comments: Another meaning of the word "bars" in my childhood (and possibly today) was as an equivalent of the British "bags": "I bars the black jellybeans", meaning "I want to eat the black jellybeans".
Contributor's comments: 'Bars' was used as above in the Parramatta area in 1930s and 1940s.
Contributor's comments: Bars always meant that you exclusively reserved something for yourself and if you said it before anyone else it generally could not be disputed!