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Cheer on, give moral support to, as in The fans were out rooting for their team , or I've been rooting for you to get that promotion . This expression may come from the British verb rout , which is used of cattle and means “bellow.” [Late 1800s]

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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