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cheerlead
(redirected from cheerleads)

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cheer·lead  (chîrld)
intr.v. cheer·led (-ld), cheer·lead·ing, cheer·leads
1. To lead organized cheering, as at sports events.
2. To express or promote automatic or servile praise: We want someone not just to cheerlead but to help us revamp our organization.
[Back-formation from cheerleader.]
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Verb1.cheerlead - act as a cheerleader in a sports event
exhort, pep up, root on, urge on, barrack, urge, inspire, cheer - spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts; "The crowd cheered the demonstrating strikers"


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From matching sweaters and pompons to coke and candy posters and ads, the allure of cheerleads in culture and advertising has long been evident in American culture, and here is captured by Elissa Stein in her visual celebration Cheerleader: Ready?
Cheerleader Ready? Okay! by Internet Bookwatch
In a new sequel, Reinventing Comics, McCloud cheerleads for a comics universe bigger and more varied than we see now.
Comics tragedy: Is the superhero invulnerable? (Culture & Reviews) by Doherty, Brian / Reason
He's a proponent of increased military spending, he boasts of voting in favor of the Persian Gulf War, he supports the nation's cruel drug, incarceration, and execution policies, he's indifferent to corporate concentration, he cheerleads for free trade and generally defends the appalling roster of the Clinton-Gore years.
Scanning the Presidential Playground by ST. CLAIR, JEFFREY / The Progressive
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