cheer
chir
- n a cry or shout of approval
- n the quality of being cheerful and dispelling gloom
flowers added a note of cheerfulness to the drab room - v give encouragement to
- v show approval or good wishes by shouting
everybody cheered the birthday boy - v cause (somebody) to feel happier or more cheerful
She tried to cheer up the disappointed child when he failed to win the spelling bee - v become cheerful
- v spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts
The crowd cheered the demonstrating strikers
- Cheerleading got so little attention at her school that she was forced to practice in the hall.
- Scrooge is a high-budget holiday spectacular, a musical extracted from Dickens' A Christmas Carol that turns out to be a curdled cup of holiday cheer.
- High schools crack down on suggestive cheerleading moves .