rah-rah

[ rah-rah ]
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adjectiveInformal.
  1. marked by or expressive of ardently enthusiastic spirit: a group of rah-rah undergraduates; a rah-rah attitude.

Origin of rah-rah

1
1910–15, Americanism; reduplication of rah

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How to use rah-rah in a sentence

  • And if you catch her chewing gum, or flirting with a rah-rah chum, then take a strap and make things hum, Wilhelmina!

  • And where Phelps leads with his baton of birch most of the other drovers of rah-rah boys follow.

    A Book of Prefaces | H. L. Mencken
  • From a crowd of rah-rah college boys celebrating a crew victory, a policeman had managed to extract two prisoners.

    Toaster's Handbook | Peggy Edmund and Harold W. Williams, compilers
  • But not in those flannels or that nice new college rah-rah shirt.

    The Professor's Mystery | Wells Hastings

British Dictionary definitions for rah-rah

rah-rah

/ (ˈrɑːˌrɑː) /


adjective
  1. informal, mainly US like or marked by boisterous and uncritical enthusiasm and excitement

Origin of rah-rah

1
C20: a reduplication of rah

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