释义 |
bob-wire U.S. colloq. alteration of barb wire (see wire n. 1 e).
1929J. F. Dobie Vaquero of Brush Country 116 Chaos demanded order, and the means of order were to be barbed wire—‘bob-wire’, most people used to call it. 1939Steinbeck Grapes of Wrath iv. 26 Some sisters took to beatin' theirselves with a three-foot shag of bobwire. 1940C. McCullers Heart is Lonely Hunter (1943) ii. xi. 233 We got to climb the bob-wire fence. |