Barrel and Course

Barrel

Barrel verb - To proceed or move quickly.

Usage example: faced with a firm deadline, we barreled through the project at a furious pace

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Course and barrel are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Course" instead a verb "Barrel".

Nearby Words: barreled, barreling, barrelled

Course verb - To proceed or move quickly.

Usage example: racehorses coursing down the track

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Barrel and course are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Barrel" instead a verb "Course".

Nearby Words: coursed, coursing, courser, courseware

good	good barrel	good course
special	special barrel	special course
long	long barrel	long course
particular	particular barrel	particular course
Other adjectives: short, right, regular, standard, proper, single, small, actual, entire, real, huge, main, new, random, alternate, last, giant.

Subverted in a Sluggy Freelance filler story (which are of course pretty bottom-of-the-barrel as it is, but in a broader sense), when the protagonists suspect someone of being an android.

Source: Bottom of the Barrel Joke
At the start, Jon went out to get a job with the Sultan declaring that "I have nothing left to lose" and, of course, ran back in the room a second later wearing a barrel.

Source: Bankruptcy Barrel
Of course, upon entering a room filled with explosive barrel, you'll VERY often have a conveniently placed enemy toss a fire bomb or a fire spell into the room to blow you to smithereens.

Source: Exploding Barrels

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