Barrel | Mean of barrel in English Dictionary

/ˈberəl/

• Noun
• a round usually wooden container with curved sides and flat ends
1. Oak barrels are used for aging the wine.
2. an empty barrel
• the amount of something in a barrel
1. The price of oil is over 30 dollars a barrel.
2. They drank a whole barrel of beer.
• the part of a gun that the bullets go through when the gun is fired
1. the barrel of a gun
2. a rifle barrel

• someone or something that is very funny
1. Several people have lost their jobs recently, so the office isn't exactly a barrel of laughs these days.
2. “Your boss is quite a kidder.” “Oh yeah, he's a real barrel of laughs.”
• very funny and enjoyable
1. The ads say the movie will be more fun than a barrel of monkeys.
• in a bad situation
1. My landlord really has me over a barrel. I have to either pay double my rent or move somewhere else.
• Verb
• to move very fast and often in an uncontrolled or dangerous way
1. The truck went barreling down Main Street.
2. She came running out of her office and went barreling past us down the hall.