barking

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Yes, a car is an insane concept, but I'm not sure you're barking up the right tree here.

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Quick take

The action of the verb to bark.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of barking gathered in one view.

noun

The action of the verb to bark.

noun

A town in the borough of Barking and Dagenham, in eastern Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ4484).

noun

A village and civil parish in Mid Suffolk district, Suffolk, England (OS grid ref TM0753).

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Core meanings and parts of speech for barking.

noun

The action of the verb to bark.

noun

A town in the borough of Barking and Dagenham, in eastern Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ4484).

noun

A village and civil parish in Mid Suffolk district, Suffolk, England (OS grid ref TM0753).

adjective

(British slang) Clipping of barking mad. [(British, New Zealand, informal) Completely insane.]

Example sentences

Yes, a car is an insane concept, but I'm not sure you're barking up the right tree here.

You need to know when you are just ahead of the curve and when you are barking mad.

In order to gauge the severity of any potential threat, you have to time the barking interval.

They are high on loyalty and low on fear, so if they are barking, there's probably a non-packmate animal around.

You're barking up the wrong tree, pure s-exprs are a raw expression of the AST.

Crazy dog barking every time a car passes outside the front door 4.

But calling Safari the new IE is barking at the wrong tree.

If I needed 5 9's, I agree that RDS is probably not the tree I want to be barking up.

But I DO know that you've changed specs here and are barking against the wrong tree.

Except for the fact that it's barking up the wrong tree.

If you are using Erlang to perform matrix multiplications on large datasets or some kind of CPU intensive work, you're probably barking up the wrong tree.

In the video, the speech Litvinkeyo's widow gives to the media here, could the dramatic interruptions by the barking-dog-owning, sign-wielding nutter be those of an agent provocateur?

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Also, some basic message templates to choose from would be helpful, like "Barking dog", "Please mow your grass", etc then just let the user edit/tweak the rest.