Lexicographical Neighbors of Barracker
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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