Normally is the word used in the italian language to define the "stretcher" (i.e: he was carried away on a stretcher)
It has then become widely used with two particular meanings:
1. As a noun, "La Barella" is the italian slang for Cocaine (probably more in the north-west regions as Lombardy or Piedmont)
2. As a verb, means "freaking out", "getting wasted", being totally fucked up
1. Oh, zio, porta la barella ! - yo, bro, bring the cocaine
2. Zio, stai sbarellando di brutto !! - dude, you're freaking out of your goddamn mind!
3. Minchia Tony l'altro giorno ha sbarellato! - Fuck, Tony got really mad the other day
4. Ou, ripigliati che stai sbarellando - dude, you're losin it, get your shit 2gether
(v.) weightlifting manoeuvre in which the lifter holds a barbell flat against his waist whilst standing with forearms turned out. He then rolls the barbell up with his elbows as a fulcrum to just below his chin, before bringing it down in a controlled descend.
When you have to pee in a movie but don’t want to miss anything, and must do the following mental equation: will the amount I have to pee cause enough discomfort to diminish my attention capacity for the remainder of the movie to an extent which is greater than the amount of the movie I would miss by making a mad dash to the restroom.
I saw Satantango last night, wonderful film but by the 5th hour I had to start doing pee calculus.
Short-hand for the word floccinaucinihilipilification, meaning the estimation of something as valueless (encountered mainly as an example of one of the longest words in the English language).