To disappear so completely and suddenly from a social gathering without anyone realizing it that even your closest friends aren't sure you were ever really there. May also refer to never answering calls, emails or texts for the purpose of not having any fun of any kind with friends to concentrate solely on school or work.
- "Dude, I swear Lisa was right here next to me just a second ago."
- "Don't worry, you're not going crazy; she's been known to pull a barefield at every party she goes to."
I've been trying to get a hold of Dave for weeks to hang out, but with the MCAT coming up, he's been pulling one heck of a barefield on me.
A term used mostly by ice climbers to describe the feeling of having your hands go numb only to come back to feeling with extreme pain. The terminology coming from when your hands are coming back to feeling you want to scream and barf at the same time.
I was climbing that sick WI5 but when I got to the top I had a nasty case of the screaming barfies.