n.
1.a barrier set up by police to stop traffic on a street or road in order to catch a fugitive or inspect traffic etc.
2.a barrier (usually thrown up hastily so as to impede the advance of an enemy) barricade v.
1.render unsuitable for passage
2.prevent access to by barricading
3.block off with barricades
Idiom of the Day
rub salt in (someone's) wound
to deliberately make someone's unhappiness or shame or misfortune worse
My supervisor rubbed salt in my wound when he continued to criticize me for my mistake.