Definition of rah-rah in English:
rah-rah
adjective
informal North AmericanMarked by great or uncritical enthusiasm or excitement.
- ‘many players were turned off by his rah-rah style’
- ‘The former Cal coach maintains his rah-rah style that should work well with a team so heavy with rookies and second-year players that it resembles a college team.’
- ‘Oh, he could handle the work, but his rah-rah style rubbed million-dollar linebackers the wrong way.’
- ‘It's a virtual community, united by rah-rah chat groups in which program participants dish training tips and offer encouragement.’
- ‘The rah-rah atmosphere seems particularly strange given that, according to employees, the bulk of prospective donors are elderly.’
- ‘Reagan's casual, almost flirtatious insolence is instantly attractive, and very modern for a 1940 rah-rah epic.’
- ‘The extras include a number of featurettes that are actually informative rather than just being rah-rah adverts for the movie you already purchased or rented.’
- ‘By and large, the television reports were uniformly awful, in my opinion, with a rah-rah patriotism that television excels at.’
- ‘Every time the rah-rah feeling in the country starts to wane, they come up with some way to get everyone to that boiling point again.’
- ‘The corporate communications and public relations profession is remarkably quiet in all the rah-rah hype of blogging.’
- ‘His rah-rah memos to the staff, exhorting them to higher greatness, fell flat on the page.’
- ‘Given her five years languishing in rah-rah roles, Christensen was happy to unleash her inner bad girl.’
- ‘I'm not the rah-rah type, that's not my personality, but I'll be giving it 100% and everyone on the team knows that.’
- ‘He's not a rah-rah guy, but his play on the ice speaks pretty loud.’
- ‘Barrel-chested and bombastic, he's always been the quintessential, larger-than-life, rah-rah leader.’
- ‘We were hoping for a counterintuitive answer to this one - you know, some rah-rah exhortation that you shouldn't let a slow economy dull your ambitions.’
- ‘He was intense, dedicated and had a strong desire to win a Super Bowl, but word out of Oakland is that many were growing tired of his rah-rah approach.’
- ‘There's not a lot of rah-rah stuff with these guys.’
- ‘Golf announcers, with too few exceptions, have always been on the rah-rah side, acting in the booth as cheerleaders for the players.’
- ‘I don't give a lot of formalized speeches - I don't give the rah-rah stuff.’
- ‘Collins is not a rah-rah guy, but teammates value his calm demeanor in the huddle and on the sideline even when things ate going haywire.’
Pronunciation
noun
informal North AmericanGreat or uncritical enthusiasm and excitement.
- ‘there's plenty of nostalgia and lots of official corporate rah-rah about culture but not a single drop of honesty’
- ‘The administration's attempt to use personal relationships, loans and rhetorical rah-rah to nudge the country toward domestic reform simply has not worked.’
- ‘He will do the usual rah-rah, maintain the economy has turned the corner and point to job growth in the past few months, claiming his tax cuts had something to do with that.’
- ‘On this occasion, he served up the usual rah-rah about the war.’
- ‘They prove that having plenty of corporate rah-rah isn't enough if the public isn't clamoring for your new toy.’
- ‘And we're competing for our livelihood, so we don't need a lot of rah-rah.’
- ‘If you come across, personality-wise, as someone sturdy and supportive, then guys who need a little rah-rah now and then will be attracted to you.’
- ‘We've gone from the rah-rah of Capra to the cynicism of Kubrick, Coppola, Stone and, well, Kubrick again.’
- ‘I mean, that kind of heart is more than just the rah-rah you hear about, OK?’
- ‘This movie spends a little too much time on the rah-rah and the drama, and not enough on the blatant unrealities of this town.’
Pronunciation
Origin
Early 20th century reduplication of rah.
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