Every time the minister got up to speak he was barracked mercilessly.
Synonym
Meaning of barrack in English
(Definition of barrack from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of barrack
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Is there a need for them to attack each other, burn a barrack down or attack police?
From Los Angeles Times
Multiple families were squeezed into a single barrack at internment camps.
From Los Angeles Times
A third saw her cousin taken away; the girl returned to the barrack bleeding, with a piece of bread clenched in her hand and a secret she'd never share.
From CNN
On the 29th, the rebellion came to an end as the rebels surrendered and the troops in their command went back to the barracks.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
The barracks can be built by the workers by using resources.
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However, this could lead our approach extremely vulnerable to rush tactics, since there is a delay time to construct a barrack and produce stronger units.
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However, we design 1 bit to represent if the player has a barracks, and one bit to represent if the enemy has a barracks.
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The likelihood of tangled jurisdiction increased over time, as soldiers moved out of military barracks and lived alongside civilians in the same neighborhoods.
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He lives in the same wooden barracks as us, or under a tent, or in earthen houses that are dark as caves.
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She testified that the defendant had come to her mistress’s house to sell some cloth that was being shown at the artillery barracks.
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According to informed estimates, 300 civilians were led to the barracks where they joined roughly 200 ex-prisoners and 130 gardes.
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Workers can build structures, like barracks, that can train military units to fight.
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Since the worker is the only unit the player can produce without constructing a barrack, it is a good unit for both harvesting and attacking.
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The prominence of forts, shore batteries, and barracks attests to the central authority's abiding interest in this aspect of the region's development.
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Most likely the headquarters of such a household was the barracks room, or oda, where the barracks commander acted as boss of his subordinates.
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