barefoot
IPA: bˈɛrfʊt
noun
- A surname transferred from the nickname.
- An unincorporated community in Nicholas County, Kentucky, United States.
adjective
- Wearing nothing on the feet.
- (informal) Of a vehicle on an icy road: not using snow chains.
- (CB radio, slang) Transmitting without the use of an amplifier.
adverb
- Wearing nothing on the feet.
- (CB radio slang) Transmitting without the use of an amplifier.
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Examples of "barefoot" in Sentences
- He was the son of King Magnus Barefoot.
- I'm all about the wet and the barefoot.
- He was led to the gallows barefoot and naked.
- He appears to be barefoot and wearing the ihram.
- Many of the characters go barefoot in the series.
- I was determined to make the five of them barefoot.
- Podiatry encompasses more than barefoot management.
- A lot of people are chasing returns in barefoot banking.
- He is reported to have made most of the journey barefoot.
- However, walking barefoot may be the cause of a hookworm infection.
- She is one of the founding members of the Society for Barefoot Living.
- They do remain barefoot in the winter which is a plus and prevents ice forming “high heels” which may lead to lameness.
- Old-timers recall barefoot children scampering into the woods to hide when the first cars rattled into their villages in the 1950s.
- Claiming that going barefoot is better because our ancestors did it is as valid as saying that wearing shoes is better because we've been doing it since prehistory.
- And yes, some poor group will get trapped in snowfall when crossing the pass, and cannibalism may or may not be involved by the time they stumble barefoot from the mountains next spring.
- I, too, was up at the crack o’ Dawn (and can tell you she really should wax more often) o’er the past “festive” season, dragging my sorry ass through miles and miles of slimey sludge in barefoot with nothing more than a whif of self-righteousness and a square of Jatz cracker to keep me going.
- But the king came to a better frame of mind, he called the jarls away, and returning humbly to his palace, took off his royal robes, and came again barefoot and in sackcloth to the church door, where Bishop William met him, took him by the hand, gave him the kiss of peace, and led him to the penitents 'place.
- Towards two o'clock in the afternoon the Pope and the palatine clergy moved in procession barefoot from the Lateran to the stational basilica, where the Adoration of the Cross took place, followed by the reading of the Passion according to St John, and the Great Litany for the various ecclesiastical orders and for the necessities of the Church.
- Seeing these well-dressed people, all wearing city shoes (going barefoot is forbidden) how can we remember the killers with the lunatic gaze, drunk with beer, with pot and with hate, adorned with amulets, brandishing shotguns and long machettes and were hounding, like you hound animals, their Tutsi neighbors that were forced to hide in the double ceilings, in the ditches and in the hedgerows?