bar out

English

Verb

bar out (third-person singular simple present bars out, present participle barring out, simple past and past participle barred out)

1. (obsolete) To shut a teacher out of the classroom as a prank.

   Synonym: outbar

   • 1728, The Journal of a Modern Lady, Jonathan Swift:

     Not schoolboys at a barring out
     Rais’d ever such incessant rout

   • 1913, G. K. Chesterton, “chapter 3”, in The Victorian Age in Literature:

     We feel that it is a disgrace to a man like Tennyson, when he talks of the French revolutions, the huge crusades that had recreated the whole of his civilisation, as being "no graver than a schoolboy's barring out."

Anagrams

• Aburto, Otruba, outbar, rubato, tabour