[bahrj] 
noun, verb, barged, barg⋅ing.| 1. | a capacious, flat-bottomed vessel, usually intended to be pushed or towed, for transporting freight or passengers; lighter. |
| 2. | a vessel of state used in pageants: elegantly decorated barges on the Grand Canal in Venice. |
| 3. | Navy. a boat reserved for a flag officer. |
| 4. | a boat that is heavier and wider than a shell, often used in racing as a training boat. |
| 5. | New England (chiefly Older Use ). a large, horse-drawn coach or, sometimes, a bus. |
| 6. | to move clumsily; bump into things; collide: to barge through a crowd. |
| 7. | to move in the slow, heavy manner of a barge. |
| 8. | to carry or transport by barge: Coal and ore had been barged down the Ohio to the Mississippi. |
| 9. | barge in, to intrude, esp. rudely: I hated to barge in without an invitation. |
| 10. | barge into,
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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 as barge into or barge in on to 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]