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barrack
verb- to ridicule someone; to jeer at someone AUSTRALIA, 1878
Probably from Northern Ireland dialect sense “to brag or boast”. - [Those were the] days in which the candidate was barracked by a crowd which knew what he was talking about. — Dymphna Cusack, Picnic Races, p. 17, 1962
- in sport, to cheer for a team; to support a person or team; hence, to cheer on a person AUSTRALIA, 1890
The usual meaning since 1945. - There was the time North Sydney, for whom we always barracked, beat Randwick[.] — Eric Lambert, The Veterans, p. 27, 1954
- [H]e pointed to some men in black and red–“Who ya gonna barrack for?” — Sue Rhodes, Now you’ll think I’m awful, p. 82, 1967
- He even comes to the games. Barracks like a loon. — Clive Galea, Slipper, p. 18, 1988
- As Jesus rode into Jerusalem the mob was barracking and cheering. — Kel Richards, The Aussie Bible, p. 52, 2003
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