Barrel
Barrel verb - To proceed or move quickly.
Usage example: faced with a firm deadline, we barreled through the project at a furious pace
Hare
Hare verb - To proceed or move quickly.
Usage example: she's always haring off to attend to some emergency
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
- In the Looney Tunes short "High Diving Hare" Bugs Bunny tricks Yosemite Sam into jumping off a high dive into a barrel of water, except there's no water in the barrel.
Source: Empty Swimming Pool Dive -
And in "Hillbilly Hare" he does it by turning the barrel of a long rifle round after the trigger has been pulled.
Source: Backwards-Firing Gun
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