barracks

verb (used without object)

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

verb (used with object)

2. to shout for or against.

noun Usually barracks.

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)

3. to lodge in barracks.

pl n (sometimes singular; when plural, sometimes functions as singular)

1. a building or group of buildings used to accommodate military personnel
2. any large building used for housing people, esp temporarily
3. a large and bleak building

verb

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

verb British, Australian and NZ informal

1. to criticize loudly or shout against (a player, team, speaker, etc); jeer
2. (intr foll by for) to shout support (for)

n.

plural, and usual, form of barrack (q.v.).

n.

1680s, “temporary hut for soldiers during a siege,” from French barraque, from Spanish barraca (mid-13c. in Medieval Latin) “soldier’s tent,” literally “cabin, hut,” perhaps from barro “clay, mud,” which is probably of Celt-Iberian origin. Meaning “permanent building for housing troops” (usually in plural) is attested from 1690s.