Lexicographical Neighbors of Barrackers
Literary usage of Barrackers
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)
"Actually people were afraid to go to them on account of the conduct of the crowd
of ' barrackers.' It took all the interest out of the game to see young men ..."
2. The Wanderings of a Spiritualist by Arthur Conan Doyle (1921)
"... manners or by the knowledge of the game shown by the barrackers. Every now
and then, out of the mass of people who darken the grass slopes round the ..."
3. Australian Socialism: An Historical Sketch of Its Origin & Developments by Anthony James Joseph St. Ledger (1919)
"... to set the States in the Commonwealth Parliament by the ears, and have been
little else than bottle-holders or " barrackers " round the ring. ..."
4. The Bulletin Reciter: A Collection of Verses for Recitation from "The (1902)
"Ho ! their barrackers yell louder, And they graft like nigs to crowd her, But
there's nothing left but arm-work in them : all their backs are curled. ..."
5. The Sporting Life and Other Trifles by Robert Lynd (1922)
"during the first hour were like the yells of angry barrackers. They were like
the clamour of ten thousand sea-gulls when the herring fleet arrives in St ..."
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