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barrel

1. tv. & in. to drink liquor to excess. Stop barreling beer and let’s go home.

2. n. a drunkard. The old barrel was full up and through for the evening.

3. in. to go fast; to speed while driving. She barreled out of here like a bat out of hell.

See:

• all oak and iron bound and *sound as a barrel
• bag ass out of somewhere
• barrel
• barrel along
• barrel ass
• barrel ass out of somewhere
• barrel fever
• barrel in
• barrel in(to)
• barrel of fun
• barrel of laughs
• barrel of monkeys
• barrel out
• barrel out (of)
• barreled
• barreled up
• be a barrel of laughs
• be more fun than a barrel of monkeys
• big around as a molasses barrel
• both barrels, with
• bottom of the barrel
• cash on the barrelhead
• crooked as a barrel of fish hooks
• double-barreled slingshot
• funny as a barrel of monkeys
• have over a barrel
• it takes one bad apple to spoil the (whole) barrel
• like shooting fish in a barrel
• loaded to the barrel
• loaded to the gills
• lock, stock, and barrel
• more fun than a barrel of monkeys
• one bad apple spoils the (whole) barrel
• over a barrel
• pork barrel
• rotten apple
• rotten apple spoils the barrel
• scrape the barrel
• scrape the bottom of the barrel
• sound as a barrel
• the bottom of the barrel
• with both barrels