<p><strong>Noun:</strong></p><ul><li>a capacious, flat-bottomed vessel, usually intended to be pushed or towed, for transporting freight or passengers; lighter.</li><li>a vessel of state used in pageants: elegantly decorated barges on the Grand Canal in Venice.</li><li>a boat reserved for a flag officer.</li><li>a boat that is heavier and wider than a shell, often used in racing as a training boat.</li><li>a large, horse-drawn coach or, sometimes, a bus.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb (used without object):</strong></p><ul><li>barged, barging: to move clumsily; bump into things; collide: to barge through a crowd.</li><li>to move in the slow, heavy manner of a barge.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb (used with object):</strong></p><ul><li>barged, barging: to carry or transport by barge: Coal and ore had been barged down the Ohio to the Mississippi.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb phrase (also barge in on):</strong></p><ul><li>to force oneself upon, especially rudely; interfere in: to barge into a conversation.</li><li>to bump into; collide with: He started to run away and barged into a passer-by.</li><li>to intrude, especially rudely: I hated to barge in without an invitation.</li></ul>