Green’s Dictionary of Slang

barbadoes v.

[proper name Barbados; after the Drogheda massacre of 1655, Oliver Cromwell transported many Irish people as an added punishment]

(Irish) to transport to the West Indies.

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[UK]Gouge n.p.: The prisoners of the Tower shall, ’tis said, be barbadozz’d [F&H].
T. Carlyle Cromwell IV 115: Be barbadoesed or worse [F&H].
McCrum, Cran & MacNeil Story of Eng. n.p.: A letter of 1655 describes Cromwell as ‘a terrible Protector [...] He dislikes shedding blood, but is very apt “to barbadoes” an unruly man’.