barracked

Verb (1)

barrack (third-person singular simple present barracks, present participle barracking, simple past and past participle barracked)

1. (transitive) To house military personnel; to quarter.
   • Where the men were barracked alone, unnatural crime prevailed : where the women were barracked, contrivances were made to render such a place a brothel.1825, Richard Carlile, The Republican, volume 11, page 276
2. (intransitive) To live in barracks.

Verb (2)

barrack (third-person singular simple present barracks, present participle barracking, simple past and past participle barracked)

1. (UK, transitive) To jeer and heckle; to attempt to disconcert by verbal means.
   • I knew that he had been barracked at times, but I did not realise that he was so sensitive.1934, Herbert Chapman, Herbert Chapman on Football, page 140

   Synonyms:

   badger, jeer, tease, make fun of, gird, heckle, roast, taunt

2. (Australia, New Zealand, intransitive) To cheer for or support 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

   Synonyms:

   cheer, root for, acclaim, acclamate, applaud, hail, beclap, cheer on, clap, encheer

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