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barracks

[bar-uhk]

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verb (used without object)

to shout boisterously for or against a player or team; root or jeer.

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verb (used with object)

to shout for or against.

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Origin:
1885–90; orig. Australian English, perhaps < N Ireland dialect barrack to brag

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bar·rack·er, noun

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Many were hatched in military barracks and commanders' offices.

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noun Usually, barracks.

a building or group of buildings for lodging soldiers, especially in garrison.

any large, plain building in which many people are lodged.

verb (used with object), verb (used without object)

to lodge in barracks.

Origin:
1680–90; < French baraque, Middle French < Catalan barraca hut, of obscure origin

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barracks (ˈbærəks)

—*pl n*
1.	a building or group of buildings used to accommodate military personnel
2.	any large building used for housing people, esp temporarily
3.	a large and bleak building

[C17: from French baraque, from Old Catalan barraca hut, of uncertain origin]

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barracks

plural, and usual, form of barrack (q.v.).

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"We now discovered that we were in a foreign country, in a station-house of another nation.... My attention was caught by the double advertisements in French and English, fastened to its posts, by the formality of the English, and the covert or open reference to their queen and the British lion. No gentlemanly conductor appeared, none whom you would know to be the conductor by his dress and demeanor; but ere long we began to see here and there a solid, red-faced, burly-looking Englishman, a little pursy perhaps, who made us ashamed of ourselves and our thin and nervous countrymen,—a grandfatherly personage, at home in his greatcoat, who looked as if he might be a stage proprietor, certainly a railroad director, and knew, or had a right to know, when the cars did start.... In the meanwhile some soldiers, redcoats, belonging to the barracks near by, were turned out to be drilled. At every important point in our route the soldiers showed themselves ready for us; though they were evidently rather raw recruits here, they maneuvred far better than our soldiers; yet as usual, I heard some Yankees talk as if they were no great shakes."

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