bare

1. slang To a great degree. Primarily heard in UK. His comments pissed me off bare, but what could I say in response? He's the boss, after all. My poor car is wrecked bare. It just looks so awful. We can't go out now, it's been bare snowing all day!

2. vulgar slang Without wearing a condom. Used especially with the verb "go" as a euphemism for "have sex." Never go bare with someone you've just met, bro. You have no way of knowing who they've been with before you. When my younger sister told me she was going to have sex with her boyfriend for the first time, I really emphasized the need to use protection and not go bare—no matter what he says! I'm too paranoid about STDs to go bare with anyone I've just brought home from the bar.

bare something

the smallest or least possible. Bob did the bare minimum of work to pass the class. Food, clothing, and shelter are the bare necessities of life.

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If the bare shafts hit right of your fletched arrows, your arrows are likely not stiff enough.

Tip of the month

Speaking of their latest project to be completed, the Honyaki restaurant, Bare Global spokesperson Emily Cheyne said: "Dubai's Jumeirah Group asked Bare Global to develop a new restaurant concept from scratch for a prime location at Dubai's premier resort destination, the Souk Madinat Jumeirah.

Bare Global joins Japanese design experts

At other times, Bare uses his poetic licence to turn things he witnessed into songs.

LOWDOWN AND QUIRKY

"Allergy sufferers have long abandoned carpeted floors for health reasons, and consumers in general have chosen bare floors over carpet for esthetic reasons for a number of years now."

Bare necessities: floor-care manufacturers have added products geared toward uncovered floors

Consequently, Bare Escentuals has fully repaid its senior secured credit facilities and will now become an operating subsidiary of Shiseido, the rater explained.

S&P ups, ends ratings on Bare Escentuals on takeover by Shiseido

The Bare Necessities Car is being designed under the Chevrolet brand and is penned to be the 'car with the lowest cost per mile of any four-seater on the road'.

GM reveals details of two concept vehicles

The rate of the composite outcome (death or repeat revascularisation) was 12% for the drug-eluting stents and 15.8% for the bare metal stents (0.40; 0.33-0.49).

Drug-eluting stents may be associated with long-term adverse events

(1) This mind-set has driven a service-centric approach to bare base capability and resulted in capability overlap and logistics inefficiency.

Designing bare base systems for logistics efficiency in the joint operational environment

For crayon scribbles on hardwood floors and beds stripped bare for pillow forts, we thank you, Lord.

A parent's thanksgiving prayer

The patch, called the South Pacific Bare Zone, is about the size of the Mediterranean Sea.

The Pacific Ocean's bald spot

When considering the pier, the architects took the bare bones, honest, pared down and matter-of-fact quality of the existing structure as their starting point.

New Deal

Bosses objected to a "warning" displayed on the sleeve which read: "This DVD is not for the faint-hearted as these boys mean business and blood is drawn regularly." The film, entitled Bare Knuckles Fights, Irish Travellers Boxing Straighteners, is advertised with an image of two topless men circling in a crowd with fists raised.

FIGHT DVD IS KOd

Anthony Bare (48) dazzled the youngster with gifts and his expensive lifestyle before attacking her.

Solicitor jailed for molesting young girl

According to Miles, the bare metal recovery ability and speed of recovery operations have made the new D2D backup an invaluable resource.

USAF looks beyond backup to data recovery

The present work explores the nature of bare nominal arguments in Japanese and Korean in conjunction with Chierchia's (1998a) nominal mapping parameter.

On mass denotations of bare nouns in Japanese and Korean *