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bar code 

alternative spelling for barcode

From the black and white vertical strips that supermarkets put on products so that when you get to the checkout, you or the checkout man/girl/person can put it under the optical scanner, and the supermarket's software will update its database, and the cash register will put it on your bill.
"Bar code" is usually spelt 'barcode' these days pal, whatever your spell check program says.
bar code by Observer54 November 29, 2006

bar code 

Often used by the Japanese referring to the Comb-over hairstyle, as it often looks like a bar code.
Yoko: Old men with bar codes are so disgusting to look during my daily commute to work...
bar code by HasteHaste December 21, 2009

bar code 

How to act while in a bar or saloon. A set of rules.
Is it against the bar code to wear my top hat?
bar code by mic17 December 28, 2013

bar code 

When a female or male has their nipples pierced vertically and their belly button pierced as well.
After I got my nipples pierced some started referring to me as Bar Code
bar code by The Original Bar Code January 15, 2008

Bar code 

Is that how you think a bar code works? What do you think a bar code does?
Hym "A bar code necessarily aligns with a SPECIFIC ITEM. If you pick up a can of diet Coke... And scan the bar code... And what comes up on the register is, instead, can of beans then the bar code is USELESS. Therefore, the problem (for you) is not that you do not have the bar code but, rather, the bar code is absolutely meaning TO YOU because you are not that which aligns with the bar code. And... I am.:
Bar code by Hym Iam September 11, 2025

Bar-Code 

Bar-Code by Psneu September 29, 2022
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