(n.) A bar of iron sharpened at one end, and used as a lever.
Example Sentences:
(1) Insert cliched Stairway to Heaven-crowbarring-in headline here.
(2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: GUARDIAN Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars: Uptown Funk Ukip could easily crowbar this into its campaign, albeit with the line “Julio – get the stretch!” altered to include a name more in keeping with the party’s ideologies.
(3) The Newcastle boss has previously crowbarred his way into talks at outdoorwear retailer Blacks Leisure, and now defunct rival sports chain JJB Sports, by snapping up chunks of shares in the businesses which were both formerly listed on the London Stock Exchange.
(4) Stinchcombe took the decision to remove the piece, using a crowbar, on Tuesday afternoon, when he heard its authenticity had been confirmed.
(5) Ben-David asked where the crowbar was, and said that they (the Arabs) have seven souls, then he gave him two blows to the head with the crowbar.
(6) A penetrating injury to the left hemisphere of the brain with a crowbar is presented.
(7) In Bristol in April a new Banksy – Mobile Lovers, painted on a wooden panel in a doorway, showing a couple embracing while surreptitiously checking their smartphones – was crowbarred off the Broad Plain boys' club almost as soon as it appeared.
(8) Tjanpi helps them make their money go further by providing bush gear such as crowbars and blankets at cost price.
(9) Seeing what was going on, Mr Jamrach (or so he later claimed) rushed out of his shop and saved the boy with the aid of a colleague with a crowbar.
(10) These two had in their grasp for a golden moment the potential to crowbar open South Africa’s race-dominated political logjam.
(11) A couple of youths in masks smashed in the windows with crowbars; then the masses poured in.
(12) The officer leading the investigation, DCI Paul Johnson, told reporters: “The vault is covered in dust and debris and the floor is strewn with discarded safety deposit boxes and numerous power tools, including an angle grinder, concrete drills and crowbars.” Detectives are tracing where the power tools were bought or hired from, though some of the serial numbers have been scratched off.
(13) He had pried open the front door with a crowbar, and was confronted by police on the sidewalk when he came out.
(14) Rescue efforts have relied heavily on volunteers using crowbars, picks and bare hands to clear debris and reach survivors.
(15) They used angle grinders and crowbars to open 70 boxes.
(16) A youth club in Bristol hopes to raise £100,000 by selling a Banksy artwork it removed from a wall with a crowbar.
(17) Power tools, including an angle grinder, the Hilti drill and crowbars, were abandoned on the floor, having been wiped clean of any incriminating evidence.
(18) When individuals get crowbars and start prying open doors to loot, they’re not protesting,” Obama said.
(19) A 39-year-old man was impaled by a crowbar which penetrated the brain.
(20) To her detractors – of which there seem to be a growing number – she's the perfect example of the dichotomy of the globe-straddling megastar spouting empty signifiers with the meaning crowbarred in afterwards.
Jemmy
Definition:
(a.) Spruce.
(n.) A short crowbar. See Jimmy.
(n.) A baked sheep's head.
Example Sentences:
(1) That all I could hear – BANG – and I thought, for fuck’s sake, I had a headache, Tel.” One of the men then clambered through the tiny hole to jemmy open 73 of the 550 safe deposit boxes, which they ransacked.
(2) Tax credits: power of Lords must be contained after defeat, Grayling says - Politics live Read more The office of Alexander – the Lib Dem chief secretary to the Treasury – was trying to jemmy open a debate that the Tories intended to keep closed.
(3) He left padlocked suitcases in the rooms and observed vicars and prim couples jemmy them open.