scaricabarile

Italian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Verb-object compound, composed of scarica (“unload, dump”) +‎ barile (“barrel”), literally “barrel-dumping”.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˌska.ri.ka.baˈri.le/[1]
  • Rhymes: -ile
  • Hyphenation: sca‧ri‧ca‧ba‧rì‧le

Noun

scaricabarile m (invariable)

  1. a children's game in which two people stand back-to-back and lift each other
  2. (figuratively) a blame game or buck-passing; a situation in which every person involved blames someone else of being responsible

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ scaricabarile in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication

Further reading

  • scaricabarile in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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