Another word for barrel
barrel
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barrel
n.
cask, keg, hogshead, stoup, vat, tub, puncheon, firkin, butt, carboy, cylinder, tun, receptacle, pipe, container, vessel.
at one's mercy, between a rock and a hard place*, in trouble; see beaten 1.
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Another word for barrel
- (Informal)
A great deal:
abundance, mass, mountain, much, plenty, profusion, wealth, world. (Informal) heap, lot, pack, peck2, pile. (Regional) power, sight. See big
- (Slang)
To move swiftly:
bolt, bucket, bustle, dart, dash, festinate, flash, fleet, flit, fly, haste, hasten, hurry, hustle, pelt2, race, rocket, run, rush, sail, scoot, scour2, shoot, speed, sprint, tear1, trot, whirl, whisk, whiz, wing, zip, zoom. (Informal) hotfoot, rip. (Slang) highball. (Chiefly British) nip1. Idioms: get a move on, get cracking, go like lightning, go like the wind, hotfoot it, make haste, make time, make tracks, run like the wind, shake a leg, step (or jump) on it. See move
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