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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!