noun

• (military, chiefly in the plural) A building for soldiers, especially within a garrison; originally referred to temporary huts, now usually to a permanent structure or set of buildings.
  "Before the gates of Bari, he lodged in a miserable hut or barrack, composed of dry branches, and thatched with straw; a perilous station, on all sides open to the inclemency of the winter and the spears of the enemy."
• (chiefly in the plural) A primitive structure resembling a long shed or barn for (usually temporary) housing or other purposes.
• (by extension, chiefly in the plural) Any very plain, monotonous, or ugly large building.
• (US) A (structure with a) movable roof sliding on four posts, to cover hay, straw, etc.

verb

• (transitive) To house military personnel; to quarter.
  "Where the men were barracked alone, unnatural crime prevailed : where the women were barracked, contrivances were made to render such a place a brothel."
• (intransitive) To live in barracks.

verb

• (British, transitive) To jeer and heckle; to attempt to disconcert by verbal means.
  "I knew that he had been barracked at times, but I did not realise that he was so sensitive."
• (Australia, New Zealand, intransitive) To cheer for or support a team.
  "The only really unique aspect of Australian barracking is its idiom, the distinctive language and humour involved."