CHEERLEAD

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Act as a cheerleader in a sports event

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "cheerlead" is one way to...):

barrack; cheer; exhort; inspire; pep up; root on; urge; urge on (spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

cheerleader (someone who leads the cheers by spectators at a sporting event)