barricade
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- n a barrier set up by police to stop traffic on a street or road in order to catch a fugitive or inspect traffic etc.
- n a barrier (usually thrown up hastily) to impede the advance of an enemy
they stormed the barricade - v render unsuitable for passage
barricade the streets - v prevent access to by barricading
The street where the President lives is always barricaded - v block off with barricades
- Patrick Kennedy, who mysteriously plowed his Ford Mustang into a security barricade on Capitol Hill last week, once seemed the great hope of his generation of America's most .
- They sought to break down the barricade by backing against it a ponderous auto-street sweeper.
- The Berlin Wall: A Pictorial History A defecting East German soldier, Conrad Schuman, leaps over a barbed wire barricade into West Berlin on August 15, 1961.