Definition of Barracker

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Barracker

barques
barquette
barquette mould
barquettes
barquillite
barra
barra boy
barra boys
barrable
barracan
barracans
barrace
barraces
barrack
barracked
barracker (current term)
barrackers
barracking
barracks
barracoon
barracoons
barracouata
barracouta
barracoutas
barracuda
barracudalike
barracudas
barracudina
barrad
barrads

Literary usage of Barracker

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Austral English: A Dictionary of Australasian Words, Phrases, and Usages by Edward Ellis Morris (1898)
"barracker, //. one who barracks (qv). 1893. 'The Age,' June 27, p. 6, col. 6: "His worship remarked that the ' barracking' that was carried on at football ..."

2. The Counsellor by New York Law School (1896)
"The facts in the case were that a pasture lot of one barracker had been ... The creditors of barracker, on learning the facts, sought to set the sale aside. ..."

3. Recollections by David Christie Murray (1908)
"The popularity of the game is answerable for the existence of the barracker whose outward manifestations of the inward man are as disagreeable as they well ..."

4. The Contemporary Review (1891)
"The very larrikin knows him—barracker, bush-whacker, sundowner, millionaire, shearer, young lady of the drawing-rooms, man of business, lonely shepherd, ..."

5. Australian Life in Town and Country by Ernest Charles Buley (1905)
"The same knowledge is often displayed by the much abused "barracker," who yells advice and reproach at the players during the course of the match. ..."

6. The Real Australia by Alfred Buchanan (1907)
"... barracker at the most exciting football match that was ever played on the Australian field. Even Professor Morris has no clue to certain of the terms ..."

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