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A straight, curved or circular piece of metal used as jewlery for piercings. Has a ball on each end that screws into the shaft. Can be made of stainless steel, titanium or niobium. Sometimes acrylic plastics are used. The different shapes often get stupid nicknames, such as belly "ring" (a curved barbell); horseshoe (circular barbell) or tounge "ring" or "stud" (a straight barbell). See also cbr.
"A 14g circular barbell"
barbell by Shinku February 15, 2004
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A straight, W-shaped or slightly curved bar approximately between 4' and 8' in length that has cast iron or cement-filled plastic weights at either end, and used moved to increase strength in a great deal of movements. A free weight.
Bicep curls, benchpresses, militar presses, tricep curls or any other two handed movement where both arms move in the same direction.
barbell by Gumba Gumba April 10, 2004
I shoved the barbell in my cats balloon knot while anal grease gushed everywhere. All the while the cat was using my coin purse as a scratching post. It was the best thing since sliced bread.
barbell by DShannon August 17, 2008
A 7 foot long iron, 45 pound steel stick that people load weight plates on to mog soibois (also to get swole and strong AF)
"Time to load the barbell with 6 plates and watch me mog the local soibois"
Barbell by BETTS SEAL! November 21, 2021
A barbell is a piece of gym equipment, a typical barbell is a straight bar, made of steel, usually 7 feet long and weights around 20kg/44 lbs or 20.4 kg/45 lbs. A barbell is usually used for heavy compound movements such as a Bench press, Squat or deadlift. The weight can be adjusted using weight plates.
Load the barbell with 225, I'm gonna bench it.
Barbell by American Powerbuilder February 8, 2022

barbell bitch

(n). 1. A woman with muscles so huge at the gym that it looks like someone put a girl's head on a man's body.

2. any girl or woman at the gym who primarily lifts weights but does nothing else like running or aerobics.
In the free weight corner, lifting 30 lb. dumbells, was an oversized barbell bitch.
barbell bitch by boggler August 17, 2005

barbell curl 

(v.) weightlifting manoeuvre in which the lifter holds a barbell flat against his waist whilst standing with forearms turned out. He then rolls the barbell up with his elbows as a fulcrum to just below his chin, before bringing it down in a controlled descend.
The barbell curl is what many people are shown doing in movies.