barge

A large boat with a flat bottom, usually used to carry heavy goods on rivers and canals.

• A barge carried coal down the river.
• The tug towed two barges through the canal.
• Workers loaded the barge with sand.

Common phrases: cargo barge, canal barge, loaded barge

To enter or move somewhere roughly, pushing past people or things.

• He barged into the kitchen.
• A man barged past me at the door.
• Please do not barge through the queue.

How to use it: barge into something (He barged into the room without knocking.); barge past someone (She barged past the guard.); barge through something (They barged through the crowd.)

Similar words: push, burst

Common phrases: barge into something, barge past someone, barge through something