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noun

plural -rels

[count] a round usually wooden container with curved sides and flat ends

Oak barrels are used for aging the wine.

an empty barrel

the amount of something in a barrel

The price of oil is over 30 dollars a barrel.

They drank a whole barrel of beer. - see also pork barrel

the part of a gun that the bullets go through when the gun is fired

the barrel of a gun

a rifle barrel

a barrel of laughs

informal :someone or something that is very funny - often used in negative statements or in an ironic way to describe someone or something that is not really funny

Several people have lost their jobs recently, so the office isn't exactly a barrel of laughs these days.

Your boss is quite a kidder. Oh yeah, he's a real barrel of laughs.

more fun than a barrel (full) of monkeys

US informal + somewhat old-fashioned :very funny and enjoyable

The ads say the movie will be more fun than a barrel of monkeys.

over a barrel

in a bad situation :in a situation where you are forced to do something you do not want to do

My landlord really has me over a barrel. I have to either pay double my rent or move somewhere else.

the bottom of the barrel

xem bottom

verb

always followed by an adverb or preposition -rels; -reled also -relled; -reling also -relling

[no obj] US informal :to move very fast and often in an uncontrolled or dangerous way

The truck went barreling down Main Street.

She came running out of her office and went barreling past us down the hall.

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