Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who barracks: a noisy partizan in a contest, originally in football; a rooter.
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Examples
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The barracker is the man who shouts for his own party, and by yells of scorn and expletives of execration seeks to daunt the side against which he has put his money or his partisan aspirations.
Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile David Christie Murray
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The origin of 'barracker' and the verb 'to barrack' probably lies in the sporting encounters between soldiers and others.
Genre writer Peter Temple wins literary award Peter Rozovsky 2010
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Jim was the best "barracker" of the two; he had great imagination; he was a very entertaining story-teller and conversationalist in social life, and a glib and a most impressive liar in business, so it was decided that he should hurry on into Bourke with the mare and sell her for Bill.
Children of the Bush Henry Lawson 1894
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The popularity of the game is answerable for the existence of the barracker whose outward manifestations of the inward man are as disagreeable as they well can be.
Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile David Christie Murray
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Then, when he was barracked whilst out talking at some industrial estate today (no doubt someone put up to it by the Middleborough Labour party, all of it of course included on the BBC News) Cammo slapped the barracker down pretty sternly.
politicalbetting.com Mike Smithson 2010
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Let's be clear, I'm not a member or barracker for any party as such, but I am one for good transparent policy.
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Southland's sole current All Black Jimmy Cowan played the role of water boy and chief barracker, the halfback becoming increasingly animated as the minutes ticked by.
Stuff.co.nz - Stuff 2009
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True, there's no shortage of sledgers, and Australia's most famous barracker, Yabba, has recently been memorialised in bronze in the new stand at the Sydney Cricket Ground.
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It remains a bone of contention among Dylanologists whether the latter rebuke was directed at the barracker or his target but certainly in football, when every week seems to bring splenetic denouncements of the latest
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The said Sully, a barracker associated with tinkers, the blackhand, Shovellyvans, wreuter of annoyimgmost letters and skirriless ballets in Parsee Franch who is Magrath’s thug and smells cheaply of Power’s spirits, like a deepsea dibbler, and he is not fit enough to throw guts down to a bear.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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