| 单词 | locomotive cheer |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslocomotive cheer locomotive cheer n. U.S. (chiefly at Princeton University) a prolonged cheer that increases in volume; shortened to locomotive (see sense B. 2c). ΚΠ 1897 L. R. Williams Let. 13 Dec. in Triennial Rec. Class of 1895 of Princeton Univ. (1898) 177 Since he couldn't get to Princeton, he had spent the day reading the Class Record and giving locomotive cheers. 1921 D. Stone Yank Brown, Halfback ix. 113 They greeted the squad uproariously, thundering the ‘locomotive’ cheer across the hostile gridiron. 1944 Life 24 Apr. 123/2 Then there was a raucous group in the gallery which, during dull speeches, would get up and give a F-R-A-N-K S-I-N-A-T-R-A locomotive cheer. 2009 M. F. Bernstein Princeton Football 8 Princeton football..is also a pregame tailgate party in an eating club parking lot, a locomotive cheer and a rousing chorus of ‘Going Back to Nassau Hall’. < as lemmas |
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