bar stool

See also: barstool

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bar stool (plural bar stools)

  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.
    Synonym: bar chair
    • 1973 December 22, W. Emerson Smith, “Friends are Hard to Come By”, in Gay Community News, volume 1, number 27, page 7:
      Although we are no longer consigned to the bar stool and bottle, we still generally frequent these places to enhance our difficult egos.
  2. (metonymic, attributive) The male-dominated milieu typically associated with bars, in particular sports bars.
    barstool conservatism
    • 2024 July 25, Xochitl Gonzalez, “What the Kamala Harris Doubters Don’t Understand”, in The Atlantic‎[1], retrieved 12 August 2025:
      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 August 23, Helen Lewis, “Trump and the Cocaine Owl”, in The Atlantic‎[2]:
      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.

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