barbie

noun

1. (Australia, New-Zealand, UK, informal)A barbecue (apparatus for grilling).
2. (Australia, New-Zealand, UK, informal)A barbecue (event: cookout).
3. (informal)A barbiturate.

   ““At nights,” she says, “we were both in our own little worlds, him with his alcohol and me with my barbies.””

   “Then one day the King said, / Jules, you're grounded. / Absolutely grounded. / This is it. So Jules took / barbies, you know, barbiturates, / and he stayed down. Way down. / Grounded like his father said.”

4. A tall, slender female fashion doll.

   “They discourage their young children from engaging in rough-and-tumble play. One mother said, “I like Hai-Mei quiet. I like her playing Barbies, writing, and singing.””

   “Everything short of the toe-to-toe Truth and Love that comes from real confrontation of individual consciousness is just playing with Barbie dolls.”

   “Sarah, who is ten, says she doesn’t play with Barbies anymore, although she takes a certain scientific interest[…].”

   “Many of my feminist friends hate Barbie because they feel that she sends a terrible message to girls […]”

5. (broadly, derogatory, informal)A beautiful but stupid or shallow young woman.

   “I'm a Barbie girl, in the Barbie world / Life in plastic, it's fantastic / You can brush my hair, undress me everywhere / Imagination, life is your creation”

   “2007, Vanessa Rose Lee, The Beauty Queen and the School Nerd After the ceremony, the "Barbies and Kens" (excluding Tommy and Britney) gathered at Lindsay's mansion to have a barbeque party. They laughed and talked about good times and vowed to remain friends forever.”

name

1. A diminutive of the female given name Barbara.