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单词 barrack
释义 bar·rack
I. \ˈbarək also ˈber- or -rik or -rēk\ noun
(-s)
Etymology: French baraque, from Middle French, from Old Catalan barraca
1. : a hut used for temporary shelter especially for soldiers
 < he lodged in a miserable hut or barrack composed of dry branches and thatched with straw — Edward Gibbon >
2. or barracks plural but singular or plural in construction
 a. : an often permanent building or set of buildings used especially for lodging soldiers in garrison
  < stepped into the barrack and blew his whistle — L.M.Uris >
  < the dormitory where I was quartered was like an army barracks — John Cheever >
 b. : the regular quarters of the Salvationists
3. or barracks plural but singular or plural in construction
 a. : a building or a group of buildings often like a shed or barn in structure and appearance that provides temporary housing (as for a group of workmen)
  < the construction gang occupied a wooden barrack on the site of the job >
  < accommodated in a barely furnished barracks for commercial travelers — William Sansom >
 b. : a large building or set of buildings housing a number of people (as a crowded tenement house) that is characterized by extreme plainness or an air of dreary uniformity
  < the big house on the hill … and the factory barracks in the valley — W.A.White >
  < the grim, toplofty barracks that we are now building — Lewis Mumford >
4. Northeast : a structure with a movable roof sliding on four posts used to cover a hay or straw rick
II. transitive verb
(-ed/-ing/-s)
: to lodge in barracks
 < buildings … used to barrack George Washington's troops in 1775 — Official Register of Harvard University >
III. verb
(-ed/-ing/-s)
Etymology: origin unknown
intransitive verb
chiefly Australia : to shout usually at a person or team engaged in a contest:
 a. : jeer, heckle
  < had to undergo some barracking for playing slowly — P.F.Warner >
 b. : root, cheer
  < his game would lose a lot of its venom if the crowd were not barracking for him — Jack Crawford >
transitive verb
chiefly Australia : to shout at derisively or sarcastically
 < the crowd started to barrack me and shout for me to kick the ball clear — Irish Digest >
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