barrel
[noun]
Synonyms: cask, butt, hogshead, keg, pipe, tun, much, great deal, lashings, lot, lump, mess, mountain, peck, power, sight
[verb]
Synonyms: hurry, barrelhouse, fleet, fly, hasten, highball, run, rush, speed, whiz

[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲

I. bar‧rel¹ /ˈbærəl/ noun [countable]
[Date: 1200-1300; Language: Old French; Origin: baril]

1. a large curved container with a flat top and bottom, made of wood or metal, and used for storing beer, wine etc:
The wine is aged in oak barrels.
barrel of
barrels of beer

2. a unit of measurement for oil, equal to 159 litres
barrel of
two million barrels of oil

3.
the part of a gun that the bullets are fired through

4. have somebody over a barrel to put someone in a situation in which they are forced to accept or do what you want:
The manager has us over a barrel – either we work on a Saturday or we lose our jobs.

5. be a barrel of laughs [often in negatives] to be very enjoyable:
Life is not exactly a barrel of laughs at the moment.
⇒ pork barrel, ⇒ scrape (the bottom of) the barrel at scrape¹(5), ⇒ lock, stock, and barrel at lock²(3)

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

II. barrel² verb [intransitive] American English informal
to move very fast, especially in an uncontrolled way:
A vehicle barreled out of a shopping center and crashed into the side of my car.

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barrel
noun
I. container
ADJ. beer, wine
VERB + BARREL fill They filled the barrels with cider
BARREL + VERB contain sth
PREP. a/per ~ The price of oil had fallen to $16 per barrel.
by the ~ Beer is sold by the barrel.
~ of a barrel of beer/oil

[TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲

barrel
II. of a gun
ADJ. gun, rifle I felt the gun barrel at my head
VERB + BARREL look down, peer/squint along She found herself looking down the barrel of a gun. Pulling his rifle to his shoulder he squinted along the barrel.
BARREL + VERB point
PHRASES the barrel of a gun

[TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲

barrel
ˈbærəl
See: over a barrel also over the barrel , scrape the bottom of the barrel

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