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Noun: barracking  ba-ru-king
Usage: Brit
  1. Shouting to interrupt a speech with which you disagree
    - heckling
Verb: barrack  ba-ruk
  1. Lodge in barracks
     
  2. Spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts
    "The crowd barracked the demonstrating strikers"
    - cheer, root on, inspire, urge, urge on, exhort, pep up
     
  3. [Brit] Laugh at with contempt and derision
    - jeer, scoff, flout, gibe

Derived forms: barrackings

Type of: accommodate, bait, break, cod, disruption, encourage, gap, interruption, lodge, rag, rally, razz [N. Amer], ride [N. Amer], tantalise [Brit], tantalize, taunt, tease, twit

Encyclopedia: Barrack