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barrack1 definition

bar·rack (bar′ək, ber′-)

noun

  1. Rare an improvised hut
    1. a building or group of buildings for housing soldiers
    2. a large, plain, often temporary building for housing workmen, police, etc.

Etymology: Fr baraque < Sp barraca, cabin, mud hut < barro, clay, mud < VL *barrum, clay

transitive verb, intransitive verb

to house in barracks
barrack2 definition

bar·rack (bar′ək, ber′-)

transitive verb, intransitive verb

Chiefly Austral. to jeer or shout at (a player, team, performer, etc.)

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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