Barney Rubble

noun

Trouble.

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Meanings

noun
  1. CockneyslangTrouble.

    Likes: The Minds (Simple), The Council (Style), & Spear (Of Destiny). Trying to grow a moustache. Trying to get girls drunk at parties. Getting into Barney Rubble (trouble) at football matches.

    1987, “A Bit of Culture: Jackie Looks at Which Cult Is Which…”, in Jackie Annual, London: D. C. Thomson & Co., Ltd., →ISBN, page 23

Origin

After Barney Rubble, a fictional character in the television animated series The Flintstones.

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APA

Barney Rubble. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Barney%20Rubble

MLA

“Barney Rubble.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Barney%20Rubble. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Barney Rubble,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Barney%20Rubble.

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