ROOT ON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does root on mean? 

• ROOT ON (verb)
  The verb ROOT ON has 1 sense:

1. spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts

  Familiarity information: ROOT ON used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ROOT ON (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

barrack; cheer; exhort; inspire; pep up; root on; urge; urge on

Context example:

The crowd cheered the demonstrating strikers

Hypernyms (to "root on" is one way to...):

encourage (inspire with confidence; give hope or courage to)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "root on"):

cheerlead (act as a cheerleader in a sports event)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody