Crowbar
noun
A heavy bar with a hooked end, used for prying or lifting heavy objects.
He used a crowbar to break the lock.
Often appears as...
- use a crowbar
- crowbar the door
verb
To pry open or apart with a crowbar.
They had to crowbar the door open.
Often appears as...
- crowbar the door open
- crowbar it apart
noun
A heavy bar with a hooked end, used for prying or lifting heavy objects.
He used a crowbar to break the lock.
Often appears as...
- use a crowbar
- crowbar the door
verb
To pry open or apart with a crowbar.
They had to crowbar the door open.
Often appears as...
- crowbar the door open
- crowbar it apart
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Strength
Using a crowbar often implies the need for physical effort or strength.
Moving the heavy rock with a crowbar took all his strength.
Pro Tip 2/3Construction Context
Crowbars are commonly associated with construction, demolition, or renovation work.
The workers had crowbars to dismantle the old cabinetry.
Pro Tip 3/3Emergencies Usage
Crowbars can be referenced in rescue operations or emergency situations to remove obstacles.
Firefighters used a crowbar to clear the debris and enter the building.
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Strength
Using a crowbar often implies the need for physical effort or strength.
Moving the heavy rock with a crowbar took all his strength.
Pro Tip 2/3Construction Context
Crowbars are commonly associated with construction, demolition, or renovation work.
The workers had crowbars to dismantle the old cabinetry.
Pro Tip 3/3Emergencies Usage
Crowbars can be referenced in rescue operations or emergency situations to remove obstacles.
Firefighters used a crowbar to clear the debris and enter the building.
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Strength
Using a crowbar often implies the need for physical effort or strength.
Moving the heavy rock with a crowbar took all his strength.
Pro Tip 2/3Construction Context
Crowbars are commonly associated with construction, demolition, or renovation work.
The workers had crowbars to dismantle the old cabinetry.
Pro Tip 3/3Emergencies Usage
Crowbars can be referenced in rescue operations or emergency situations to remove obstacles.
Firefighters used a crowbar to clear the debris and enter the building.
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Drugs with Hot Sauce PIPE...
dripping right there the crowbar isn't strong enough to completely open up the gas tank so a new strategy is needed we're gonna move it into the lift so we can drop the gas tank off and maybe that way we've got to be able to take the packages faster and easier
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Hand sanitizers work less like a crowbar, and more like an earthquake. When you surround a coronavirus with water, the hydrophobic effect gives the bonds within the membrane their strength. That same effect also holds the big proteins
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The harm reduction model...
a narrow room with a concrete floor, a few chairs and a box of clean needles. The police would often lock it down, but somehow it always mysteriously reopened, often with the aid of a crowbar.
Video examples
Drugs with Hot Sauce PIPE...
dripping right there the crowbar isn't strong enough to completely open up the gas tank so a new strategy is needed we're gonna move it into the lift so we can drop the gas tank off and maybe that way we've got to be able to take the packages faster and easier
Video examples
Which is better: Soap or...
Hand sanitizers work less like a crowbar, and more like an earthquake. When you surround a coronavirus with water, the hydrophobic effect gives the bonds within the membrane their strength. That same effect also holds the big proteins
Video examples
The harm reduction model...
a narrow room with a concrete floor, a few chairs and a box of clean needles. The police would often lock it down, but somehow it always mysteriously reopened, often with the aid of a crowbar.
Example 1 of 3
Quote examples
Jo Brand
British Comedian
Anybody who has had the pleasure of reading an article about themselves in the press knows that, on the whole, there is a huge amount of inaccuracy, value judgment and the use of a crowbar to insert editorial bias that reflects the current political leaning of that particular paper.
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Michael Beschloss
American Historian
Kissinger's monopoly on this historical record has driven many scholars to distraction. Groups of lawyers, scholars, journalists and archivists have used pronunciamento, lawsuit, and other crowbars in a usually vain effort to open Kissinger's Library of Congress cache.
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Ayelet Waldman
Israeli Novelist
I pity the young woman who will attempt to insinuate herself between my mama's boy and me. I sympathize with the monumental nature of her task. It will take a crowbar, two bulldozers and half a dozen Molotov cocktails to pry my Oedipus and me loose from one another.
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Hal Sparks
American Actor
People only have guilty pleasures when they crowbar pleasure down their throat all the time and then they reach for the brownies. Then you should feel guilty because you're killing your body and that's something to be guilty about.
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John Leguizamo
Colombian Comedian
I see the new Latin artist as a pioneer, opening up doors for others to follow. And when they don't open, we crowbar our way in.
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John Dickerson
American Journalist
Officials in every White House crowbar the facts to make their cases.
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Jo Brand
British Comedian
Anybody who has had the pleasure of reading an article about themselves in the press knows that, on the whole, there is a huge amount of inaccuracy, value judgment and the use of a crowbar to insert editorial bias that reflects the current political leaning of that particular paper.
Quote examples
Michael Beschloss
American Historian
Kissinger's monopoly on this historical record has driven many scholars to distraction. Groups of lawyers, scholars, journalists and archivists have used pronunciamento, lawsuit, and other crowbars in a usually vain effort to open Kissinger's Library of Congress cache.
Quote examples
Ayelet Waldman
Israeli Novelist
I pity the young woman who will attempt to insinuate herself between my mama's boy and me. I sympathize with the monumental nature of her task. It will take a crowbar, two bulldozers and half a dozen Molotov cocktails to pry my Oedipus and me loose from one another.
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Hal Sparks
American Actor
People only have guilty pleasures when they crowbar pleasure down their throat all the time and then they reach for the brownies. Then you should feel guilty because you're killing your body and that's something to be guilty about.
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John Leguizamo
Colombian Comedian
I see the new Latin artist as a pioneer, opening up doors for others to follow. And when they don't open, we crowbar our way in.
Quote examples
John Dickerson
American Journalist
Officials in every White House crowbar the facts to make their cases.
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