Open English Wordnet
Nouns
(n)shot, shaft, slam, dig, barb, jibe, gibean aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect“his parting shot was ‘drop dead’”,
“she threw shafts of sarcasm”,
“she takes a dig at me every chance she gets” (n)barbthe pointed part of barbed wire (n)barba subsidiary point facing opposite from the main point that makes an arrowhead or spear hard to remove (n)barbone of the parallel filaments projecting from the main shaft of a feather Verbs
(v)barbprovide with barbs“barbed wire”