Barrack for

BARR-ek for · verb

To support a team.

Person 1"Who do you barrack for?"
Person 2"Collingwood, sorry to say."

"She's barracked for the Swans since she was five."

Where it's from

In the 1880s barracking meant jeering at the other side. Within a few years it also meant cheering for your own.

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