âItâs a craze,â said Pachter. It may have a long shelf life for a craze, he said â at least as long as it takes most people to catch every PokÃ©monâ but he doesnât see it lasting forever. âPet Rocks lasted more than 100 days, too,â he said.
barbed wire. play. noun \ËbÃ¤rb(d)-ËwÄ«(-É)r, ËbÃ¤b(d)-\. Definition of barbed wire for English Language Learners. : wire that has sharp points and that is often used for fences.
A close-up view of a barbed wire. Roll of modern agricultural barbed wire. Barbed wire, also known as barb wire less often, bob wire (or, in the southeastern United States, bobbed wire), is a type of steel fencing wire constructed with sharp edges or points arranged at intervals along the strand(s).he Big Four in barbed wire were Joseph Glidden, Jacob Haish, Charles Francis Washburn, and Isaac L. Ellwood. Glidden, a farmer in 1873 and the first of the Big Four, is often credited for designing a successful sturdy barbed wire product, but he let others popularize it for him.