Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

lifting the bar

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.00 in modern English

Syllables
lift-ing the bar
IPA
22
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
2
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

present participle and gerund of lift the bar

Questions

What does lifting the bar mean?
present participle and gerund of lift the bar

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