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bar stool en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio

Meanings

1. A stool used for sitting, often taller than a chair and usually having a foot rest, commonly placed in bars and in front of kitchen counters.
   • Although we are no longer consigned to the bar stool and bottle, we still generally frequent these places to enhance our difficult egos. 1973 December 22, W. Emerson Smith, “Friends are Hard to Come By”, in Gay Community News, volume 1, number 27, page 7:
   • It's lacking something big this time. What the hell did you expect to find? Aphrodite on a bar stool by your side? 1992, “Pieces of the Night”, in Doug Hopkins (lyrics), New Miserable Experience, performed by Gin Blossoms:
2. (attributive, metonymically) The male-dominated milieu typically associated with bars, in particular sports bars.
   • I have many male friends, and they frequently include me in barstool-punditry sessions where they pontificate, often with wisdom and insight, on the issues of the day. 2024 July 25, Xochitl Gonzalez, “What the Kamala Harris Doubters Don’t Understand”, in The Atlantic, retrieved 12 Aug 2025:
   • barstool conservatism
   • Accordingly, Trump and Von’s conversation rambled through classic barstool topics: their favorite fighters, Kid Rock’s golf swing, and the question of why people no longer have heart attacks from the excitement at sporting events. 2024 August 23, Helen Lewis, “Trump and the Cocaine Owl”, in The Atlantic:

Forms

Synonyms

bar chair

Translations (12)

cs barová židle (stool used for sitting) · de Barhocker (stool used for sitting) · fi baarituoli (stool used for sitting) · hu bárszék (stool used for sitting) · cmn 酒吧椅 (stool used for sitting) · cs barová stolička (stool used for sitting) · cy stôl dafarn (stool used for sitting) · pl stołek barowy (stool used for sitting) · fi baarijakkara (stool used for sitting) · de Barstuhl (stool used for sitting) · nl barkruk (stool used for sitting) · cy stolion tafarn (stool used for sitting)