Barricade

Definitions

1. A barrier constructed across a road, especially as a military defence
2. An obstacle, barrier, or bulwark.
3. A place of confrontation.
   figuratively, in-plural
4. Line of people standing behind or closest to the barricade in the pit section of a live music concert.
   figuratively

Equivalents

Examples

“Such a barricade as would greatly annoy, or absolutely stop⟳, the currents of the atmosphere.”

“Her future friend from grade six, Millie Mirarch, was often caught in various parts of the school being told that she was extremely pretty —for a girl with teeth held together by a metal wire that protruded well beyond the barricade of her lips.”

“Salah will ask⟳ himself forever how he did not score⟳ at least one goal here. He might have⟳ nightmares featuring the face⟳ of Courtois, such was the one-man barricade he formed.”

“I have⟳ a friend who finds the whole idea of a gay marching band distasteful on the grounds that it replicates straight culture. I'm not ready to follow⟳ her to the barricades on that because I think⟳ that to some extent the sight of women banging bass drums and men prancing around in pink spandex has to undermine a patriarchal and heterosexist assumption or two.”

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