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   The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition.  2000.
 
crowbar
 
SYLLABICATION:crow·bar
PRONUNCIATION:  krbär
NOUN: A straight bar of iron or steel, with the working end shaped like a chisel and often slightly bent and forked, used as a lever.
TRANSITIVE VERB:Inflected forms: crow·barred, crow·bar·ring, crow·bars
To extract, remove, or insert forcibly: [The newsmagazines] can crowbar stories in as late as Sunday and still be out on Monday” (Edwin Diamond).
ETYMOLOGY: crow1 + bar1.
 
 
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