Their staff have rudely barged to the front of the queue.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Bringing these emblematic plants to life on the royal barge became our aim.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
We barged past him and ran outside on to the street.
The Sun (2012)
More intrusive are the random facts that barge into conversation.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
She thinks no one will touch her with a barge pole now.
The Sun (2007)
They pulled over and tried to stop the man but he barged past them and fled.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
The real test comes when he does this against as many as five other drivers trying to barge past.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
Wouldn't touch him with your barge pole.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
It might be standing aside to let somebody pass, instead of barging past them.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
Don't touch it with a barge pole.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
There are some sick and twisted individuals out there who shouldn't be touched with a barge pole.
The Sun (2013)
Yet only 3,000 tonnes have been moved by barge in or out of the park since construction began two years ago.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
As soon as the verdict was announced he leaped up, barged past four security guards and bolted from the dock.
The Sun (2008)
The royal barge could sink.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Another barge swept past, downstream.
Ben Nimmo IN FORKBEARD'S WAKE: Coasting Round Scandinavia (2003)
The barges and boats that were to carry the Wehrmacht across the Channel were clogging the ports.
Patrick Bishop FIGHTER BOYS: Saving Britain 1940 (2003)
The company traces its origins to a transport business formed in 1884 that moved goods by barge along the Thames.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
At least three cruise liners with hotel rooms will be anchored in disused docks on the Thames, alongside many smaller boats and barges offering accommodation.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
In other languages
barge
British English: barge /bɑːdʒ/ NOUN
A barge is a narrow boat with a flat bottom, used for carrying heavy loads.
Carrying goods by train costs three times more than carrying them by barge.
American English: barge
Arabic: زَوْرَق لِنَقْل البَضَائِع
Brazilian Portuguese: barcaça
Chinese: 驳船
Croatian: barka
Czech: člun nákladní
Danish: pram
Dutch: binnenschip
European Spanish: barcaza
Finnish: proomu
French: péniche
German: Schleppkahn
Greek: φορτηγίδα
Italian: chiatta
Japanese: バージ
Korean: 바지선
Norwegian: lekter
Polish: barka
European Portuguese: batelão
Romanian: barjă
Russian: баржа
Latin American Spanish: barcaza
Swedish: pråm
Thai: เรือบรรทุก เรือที่ใช้ในพิธี
Turkish: mavna
Ukrainian: баржа
Vietnamese: sà lan
British English: barge VERB
If you barge into a place or barge through it, you rush or push into it in a rough and rude way.
Students tried to barge into the secretariat buildings.
American English: barge
Brazilian Portuguese: irromper
Chinese: 闯入
European Spanish: irrumpir
French: faire irruption
German: hereinplatzen in
Italian: irrompere
Japanese: 押しのける
Korean: 난입하다
European Portuguese: irromper
Latin American Spanish: irrumpir
All related terms of 'barge'
barge in
If you barge in or barge in on someone, you rudely interrupt what they are doing or saying .
barge pole
→ See would not touch someone or something with a barge pole
canal barge
a long narrow boat used on canals , esp for carrying freight
swamp barge
A swamp barge is a vessel used for offshore drilling in very shallow water, which is towed out and then rests on the bottom.
barge couple
either of a pair of outside rafters along the gable end of a roof
barge course
the overhang of the gable end of a roof
New York State Barge Canal
a system of inland waterways in New York State, connecting the Hudson River with Lakes Erie and Ontario and, via Lake Champlain , with the St Lawrence . Length : 845 km (525 miles)
someone wouldn't touch something or someone with a barge pole
said to mean that someone does not want to have anything to do with someone or something, because they do not trust them or like them
would not touch someone or something with a barge pole would not touch sb/sth with a bargepole
If you say that you wouldn't touch something with a barge pole , you mean that you would not want to have anything to do with it, either because you do not trust it, or because you do not like it.
Chinese translation of 'barge'
barge
(bɑːdʒ)
n(c)
(= boat) 驳(駁)船 (bóchuán) (艘, sōu)
(noun)
Definition
a flat-bottomed boat, used for transporting freight, esp. on canals
He lives on a barge and only works when he has to.
Synonyms
canal boat
lighter
narrow boat
scow
flatboat
(verb)
Definition
to push one's way violently
(informal)
Students tried to barge their way into the secretariat building.
Synonyms
force
The extra weight of the crash helmet forced my head backwards.