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barrel
verb- to knock someone over; to flatten someone; also, to beat up someone, to punch someone, to deliver a blow AUSTRALIA
- Hey, remember the last football match, the grand final when Davo got barrelled? — Alexander Buzo, Rooted, p. 84, 1969
- That muscular loudmouth who is always barrelling cats and poofters is quite likely to be a screaming drag queen himself — Suzy Jarratt, Permissive Australia, p. 54, 1970
- Some mug [...] barrelled a king [a hard and unexpected punch] at him — The (Sydney) Bulletin, 26 April 1975
- He was playing for Berry at the time and he was barrelled off in the final minute of the game — Roy Staven (John Doyle), Five South Coast Seasons, p. 35, 1992
- to scold someone NEW ZEALAND Prison usage.
- — Harry Orsman, A Dictionary of Modern New Zealand Slang, p. 7, 1999
- to hold someone at bay; to corner someone AUSTRALIA
- Poor old John Waters, the delegate from the Northern Territory, had just arrived and was checking in at the reception desk when we barrelled him and said, “We want to talk to you.” — Blanche d’Alpuget, Robert J. Hawke, p. 320, 1982
- to drive at great speed AUSTRALIA
- We didn’t speak but simply barrelled along the freeway, full of our own troublesome thoughts. — Helen Garner, Monkey Grip, p. 46, 1977
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