barrack

¹

[bar-uhk]

noun

1. a building or group of buildings for lodging soldiers, especially in garrison.

2. any large, plain building in which many people are lodged.

verb (used with or without object)

1. to lodge in barracks.

barrack

²

[bar-uhk]

verb (used without object)

1. to shout boisterously for or against a player or team; root or jeer.

verb (used with object)

1. to shout for or against.

barrack

¹

/ ˈbærək /

verb

1. to criticize loudly or shout against (a player, team, speaker, etc); jeer

2. to shout support (for)

barrack

²

/ ˈbærək /

verb

1. to house (people, esp soldiers) in barracks

Other Word Forms

• barracker noun
• barracking noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of barrack¹

1680–90; < French baraque, Middle French < Catalan barraca hut, of obscure origin

Origin of barrack²

1885–90; originally Australian English, perhaps < N Ireland dialect barrack to brag

Word History and Origins

Origin of barrack¹

C19: from northern Irish: to boast

Example Sentences

On a Saturday afternoon, soldiers fan out in Caracas' Petare neighbourhood to fulfil Maduro's order that "the barracks come to the people".

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New York fans love to back their teams and barrack the opposition.

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That could include swapping some hotels for former military barracks or disused warehouses, as the health minister Stephen Kinnock suggested earlier on Sky News.

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Many of his supporters spent weeks camped outside army barracks in an attempt to convince the military to prevent Lula from being sworn in.

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On October 23, 1983, in a disaster that deeply embarrassed President Ronald Reagan on the world stage, 241 U.S. service personnel died in their barracks in an explosion on a military base in Beirut, Lebanon.

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Related Words

• camp 
• garrison 
• hut