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boosterism colloq. (orig. U.S.).|ˈbuːstərɪz(ə)m|
[f. booster + -ism.]
A tendency to ‘boost’ or seek to raise the estimation of (oneself, one's town, product, etc.) by praise; the expression of chauvinism.
1926Sat. Even. Post 30 Jan. 16/3 Those who are possessed of the ambition to become liberal..wince when accused of being orthodox or of failing to comply with the ready-made regulations of the cult; and so they straightway quit thinking for themselves and blush at the imputation of boosterism. 1935M. M. Atwater Crime in Corn-Weather x. 70 He kissed his wife, grabbed his Panama, and went off downtown, feeling the springs of boosterism and ballyhoo renewed within him. 1948Daily Ardmoreite (Ardmore, Okla.) 8 Apr. 12/2 ‘Boosterism’ will be out when a new Maryland Department of Information begins to warm up the typewriters this year. 1966English Studies XLVII. 207 No reader of Whitman..can gainsay..his attitudes of unrelieved bluffness, heartiness, boosterism, boasting, [etc.]. 1973Times 21 Mar. 21/5 A blending of German thoroughness and American small town boosterism. 1977Rolling Stone 19 May 32/2 The Exposition was, in all, boggling—a nonstop blend of the crassest kind of trade-show boosterism and the fresh-scrubbed naiveté of a high-school science fair. 1985Times 14 Sep. 8/3 Official resentment of this Soviet boosterism was beginning to show. |