barrack

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To house (soldiers, for example) in quarters.
2. n. A building or group of buildings used to house military personnel. Often used in the plural.
3. n. A large, unadorned building used for temporary occupancy. Often used in the plural.
4. v. Chiefly British To jeer or shout at a player, speaker, or team.
5. v. Australian To shout support for a team.
6. v. Chiefly British To shout against; jeer at.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A building for lodging soldiers, especially in garrison; a permanent building or range of buildings in which both officers and men are lodged in fortified towns or other places.
2. n. A large building, or a collection of huts or cabins, especially within a common inclosure, in which large numbers of men are lodged.
3. n. A straw-thatched roof supported by four posts, under which hay is kept, and which is capable of being raised or lowered at pleasure. In Maryland, and perhaps elsewhere, the word is used for a building of any kind intended for the storage of straw or hay. [U. S.]
4. To house in barracks; lodge in barracks, as troops.
5. To lodge or reside in barracks.
6. To jeer at or deride opponents; specifically, with for (like the equivalent United States slang root), to support, as a partizan, by cheers, shouts, and other demonstrations of approval, or by jeering at and noisily disturbing and interrupting the opposite side or party: as, to barrack for the school team.

Wiktionary

1. n. military A building for soldiers, especially within a garrison; originally referred to temporary huts, now usually to a permanent structure or set of buildings.
2. n. primitive structure resembling a long shed or barn for (usually temporary) housing or other purposes
3. n. any very plain, monotonous, or ugly large building
4. n. US, regional A movable roof sliding on four posts, to cover hay, straw, etc.
5. n. Ireland, colloquial, usually plural A police station.
6. v. transitive To house military personnel; to quarter.
7. v. intransitive To live in barracks.
8. v. UK, transitive To jeer and heckle; to attempt to disconcert by verbal means.
9. v. Australia, New Zealand, intransitive To cheer for a team; to jeer at the opposition team or at the umpire (after an adverse decision).

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. (Mil.) A building for soldiers, especially when in garrison. Commonly in the pl., originally meaning temporary huts, but now usually applied to a permanent structure or set of buildings.
2. n. Local, U.S. A movable roof sliding on four posts, to cover hay, straw, etc.
3. v. To supply with barracks; to establish in barracks.
4. v. To live or lodge in barracks.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. lodge in barracks
2. v. laugh at with contempt and derision
3. n. a building or group of buildings used to house military personnel
4. v. spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts