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CHEERLEAD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cheerlead mean? 

CHEERLEAD (verb)
  The verb CHEERLEAD has 1 sense:

1. act as a cheerleader in a sports eventplay

  Familiarity information: CHEERLEAD used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CHEERLEAD (verb)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Act as a cheerleader in a sports event

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "cheerlead" is one way to...):

barrack; cheer; exhort; inspire; pep up; root on; urge; urge on (spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

cheerleader (someone who leads the cheers by spectators at a sporting event)


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