barracking

An act of jeering or heckling.

Noun

  1. 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,...
  2. 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...
    • 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,...
    • ‘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:

Forms

barrackings

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of barrack