barracking
noun1
An act of jeering or heckling.
- It's the sort of mindset in which you don't take in the words of praise, only the boss's criticism and the barrackings of the crowd.2012, Rob White, Julie Welch, The Ghost: In Search of My Father the Football Legend, page 106:
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Australia, New Zealand The act of cheering for or supporting a team.
- The only really unique aspect of Australian barracking is its idiom, the distinctive language and humour involved.1988, J. A. Mangan, editor, Pleasure, Profit, Proselytism: British Culture and Sport at Home and Abroad 1700-1914, page 266:
- I had by then explained to him my custom of occasionally listening to Australian Rules Football on our shortwave radio of a Saturday afternoon; how, despite my barracking for Essendon, I thought a player from Geelong, Gary Ablett, the best I had ever seen.2009, Roger Averill, Boy He Cry: An Island Odyssey, page 115:
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- ‘So to me barracking for the footy I identified with my father, although nobody barracked for Essendon.’2010, John Cash, Joy Damousi, Footy Passions, page 75: