barrack
IPA: bˈærʌk
noun
- (military, chiefly in the plural) A building for soldiers, especially within a garrison; originally referred to temporary huts, now usually to a permanent structure or set of buildings.
- (chiefly in the plural) A primitive structure resembling a long shed or barn for (usually temporary) housing or other purposes.
- (by extension, chiefly in the plural) Any very plain, monotonous, or ugly large building.
- (US) A (structure with a) movable roof sliding on four posts, to cover hay, straw, etc.
- (Ireland, colloquial, usually in the plural) A police station.
- A surname.
- A male given name.
verb
- (transitive) To house military personnel; to quarter.
- (intransitive) To live in barracks.
- (Britain, transitive) To jeer and heckle; to attempt to disconcert by verbal means.
- (Australia, New Zealand, intransitive) To cheer for or support a team.
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Examples of "barrack" in Sentences
- He deserved to be barracked at.
- The audience barracked at the musician.
- The people barrack at the mocking bird.
- The enemy parried the barracks at night.
- The pylons encircle the entire barracks.
- The two return to the Barracks afterward.
- They barracked the enemy in the opposite side.
- The barracks are presently roofless and ruinous.
- The remaining echelon was located in the barracks.
- They were not allowed to barrack at the performance.
- In the kitchen barrack is a big dining and recreation room.
- In the same barrack is a small mess-hall, a magazine for the Red
- The prisoners of war are lodged in barrack huts of the usual kind, well built.
- The one large wooden barrack is divided into three spacious and well-aired sleeping rooms.
- A house which will in all probability be converted once a year into a barrack, is decidedly better in
- And then only the fittest will be employed, and they will be separated from families in barrack housing.
- May 20th, 2008 7: 26 pm ET well well well what do we expect from uneducated, rural, gun totting, racist folk? of course but it doesnt change anything barrack is the next president
- The barrack is now a bit overcrowded, but the work is just building a special hut for the guards outside the barbed wire area which will give the POWs the disposition of the guards 'room and resolve thus the problem of overcrowding.
- But though St. George looked bonny enough to warm any father's heart, as he marched up and down with an air learned by watching many a parade in barrack-square and drill-ground, and though the Valiant Slasher did not cry in spite of falling hard and the Doctor treading accidentally on his little finger in picking him up, still the Captain and his wife sighed nearly as often as they smiled, and the mother dropped tears as well as pennies into the cap which the King of Egypt brought round after the performance.