| 单词 | rocket cheer |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrocket cheer 4. U.S. More fully rocket cheer. At Princeton University: a cheer imitating the sounds associated with the setting off of a firework rocket (see quot. 1868); = sky rocket n. 2. Now historical. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > applause > [noun] > shouted applause > at American universities sky rocket1860 rocket1868 1868 N.Y. Times 29 Oct. 5/3 Three cheers..were given with a will, followed by the usual tiger and ‘rocket’. This rocket, by the way, is a thoroughly Princeton institution, and as such deserves a word of description. It is given with a f-z-z-z—boom—a—h! The first exclamation is supposed to imitate the flight of a rocket in the air; the second the explosion, and the third the admiring exclamations of the enthusiastic spectators. 1877 in W. Libbey & W. W. McDonald Topographic, Hypsometric, & Meteorol. Rep. Princeton Sci. Exped. 1877 (1879) App. p. 3 When we reached the depot, we found a large number of students had gathered and they sent us off with the old-time cheer and rocket. 1903 Princeton Alumni Weekly 11 Apr. 440/1 Several members of the class of '61 Princeton were present at Princeton Junction on April 19, '61, and state that the ‘rocket-cheer’ was never used in Princeton before that evening. 1917 E. M. Norris Story of Princeton i. 5 Princeton is unique in the mystery that enshrouds the origin of the name which caps the climax of her rocket cheer. 2001 M. F. Bernstein Football: Ivy League Origins of Amer. Obsession i. 7 By the 1890s, the rocket cheer would develop into Princeton's famous ‘locomotive’,..still heard at football games today. < as lemmas |
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