Verb.
1. The act of shafting people in the queue without seeming like a total twat when the bartender forgets that you'
re at the back of the queue and asks you what you want. This is done by turning to one of the people next to you and saying "This person was here before me." to the bartender thus shafting everybody else and looking like a saint to the bartender and the person next to you. This is called barlowing because it is the moral equivalent of making a song for charity and performing tax evasion.
2. A manoeuvre that allows you to get to the
front of a
bar queue when one of the people in
front of you leave and the person next to you is also contending to get that space. This is done by preventing the leaving man from turning to face you and can be performed in this step by step procedure:
Step 1: Form a barrier between the leaver and the
bar's exit. This is commonly done by putting your
hand on the
bar while facing the leaver. This
will cause him to turn the other way.
Step 2: If the leaver turns too far away, the "opponent"
will still have a decent chance of getting that space. This can be prevented by putting your other
hand on the
bar, and then sliding in when the leaver starts to leave.
This is called barlowing because while it is usually considered rude to turn your back on somebody, you'll be thinking "I want your back for
good."
1. "Wow
Dave, that was very kind of you to let that man go first" "Actually Nick, I was barlowing the queue. I was 9th when I arrived, but I skipped to 2nd!"
2. While
Dave was usually a moral person, he occasionally liked to practise barlowing in pubs. He didn't feel any guilt if the person
next to him was a notefold cock.
