charrier

Literally to cart or carry along (a river charrying silt, a truck carrying gravel), but in everyday spoken French it's much more often used informally to mean to exaggerate, to go too far, or to tease and rib someone — tu charries ! (you're pushing it!).

• La rivière charrie des débris après la crue. — The river carries along debris after the flood.
• Arrête de charrier, ce n'est pas si grave ! — Stop exaggerating, it's not that serious!
• Il charrie souvent ses collègues, mais gentiment. — He often teases his colleagues, but kindly.

In casual conversation charrier almost always means 'to exaggerate/tease,' not literally 'to carry' — don't be thrown by dictionaries that lead with the literal cart/river sense.

• expression "Faut pas charrier" / "Arrête de charrier" — A very common everyday phrase for telling someone they're exaggerating or going too far, built directly on this verb's informal sense.