Skip to main content
More specifically "having a Barry", and it is one of the better examples of twice-removed Australian rhyming slang.

It means you're having a bad time of things, or a shocker. The connection is Barry Crocker, an extremely naff singer from Geelong, Australia (my home town - carn the Cats!) who sang the original theme song to Neighbours and is usually seen these days singing at telethons or Carols by Candlelight or other such horseshit.

In a nutshell, shocker = Barry Crocker = Barry.

Most often used in a sporting sense, when someone asks how you performed.

PS for the Seppos out there, Neighbours is a cheap and nasty Aussie soap opera that the Brits can't get enough of. BTW, "Seppo" is another example of Aussie rhyming slang, meaning American (Yank = septic tank = seppo)
When your leggies are disappearing for 9 an over, or you've kicked 4 behinds and 2 out-on-the-full for the day, or your pitching's been racked for 3 homers in 1 innings(if you're a Seppo), mate, you are having an absolute Barry.
Barry by Choda Boy 57 August 10, 2006
verb.
to vomit in a hyperbolic manner.
Derived from Barry Chuckle of Chucklevision of which can be used as a substitute.
I was so ill today that I Barried all over the bathroom.
Wait a minute, I'm going to stop for a technical Barry Chuckle around the corner.

chunder puke vomit
Barry by TerryNutkins July 6, 2016
1. barry is slang for the magnum brand ice cream (started by the treatment of a magnum by a middle aged man called Barry Exton)
2. a penis
3. anything that can be described as 'barry' which in fact means nothing, actually is more positive that negative
'set us a barry creamy'
'that was bare barry'
'give him a bare barry shanking'
barry by Barry is a legend July 6, 2006
A Barry is a white person.

Have you ever met an ethnic person called Barry? It’s just become the default name for a white person.
1)What you doing today?

2)Going rock climbing then camping.

1)You’re actually the biggest Barry I’ve ever met.
Barry by Miinii June 19, 2018
to barry (verb):

to vomit, puke, barf, chuck up, hurl; usually due to excessive alcohol consumption

//Meaning originated in the south but is now in wide-spread use throughout most parts of the UK//
1) oh no, i think i'm going to barry... not again... *bleurgh*
2) last night was mental, can't believe how many times i barried
barry by swbgs June 2, 2008
Those poly boys are so Barry it's brazy.
barry by barriest May 19, 2014