barracking — Diccionario de inglés

Sustantivo

1. An act of jeering or heckling.

   Ejemplos

   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.

2. The act of cheering for or supporting a team.

   Uso

   • Australia
   • New-Zealand

   Ejemplos

   The only really unique aspect of Australian barracking is its idiom, the distinctive language and humour involved.

   Más ejemplos (1)

   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.

   ‘So to me barracking for the footy I identified with my father, although nobody barracked for Essendon.’

Sustantivo

1. shouting to interrupt a speech with which you disagree

   Sinónimos

   heckling

   Términos más generales

   breakinterruptiondisruptiongap