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barge in
Enter rudely or abruptly, intrude. For example, Her mother never knocks but just barges in. The term is also put asto mean interrupt, as in Who asked you to barge into our conversation? These phrases use to barge in the sense of “bump into” or “knock against,” which may allude to the propensity of these clumsy vessels to collide with other craft. [Late 1800s]
Example Sentences
She “barged in” when Rasmussen answered, and found herself in a struggle she compared to “a hellacious bar fight.”
Blueseed planned to anchor a floating residential barge in international waters off the coast of Northern California.
These outsiders haven’t arrived to insult and evade, nor to barge in and convert.
Thankfully, the story arc is designed so that chaos keeps barging in, most delightfully in the form of a scene stealer named ParTeb, a goofball from Tunisia who presents as a saucy green alien.
I realize it was a bit of an unusual move to just barge in, but, seemingly unfazed, she smiled back.
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