rah-rah

English

Etymology

Reduplication of (hur)rah, as used in cheering at sporting competitions.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

rah-rah (comparative more rah-rah, superlative most rah-rah)

  1. Marked by noisy enthusiasm.
    • 2026 January 7, Jeremy Barr, quoting Megyn Kelly, “Maga media stars back Trump on Venezuela … mostly: ‘It doesn’t make any sense’”, in The Guardian‎[1], →ISSN, archived from the original on 7 January 2026:
      “I turned on Fox News yesterday, and I’m sorry, but it was like watching Russian propaganda,” she said on her Monday show. “There was nothing skeptical. It was all rah-rah cheerleading, yes, let’s go. […] I believe in President Trump, but there are serious reasons to just exercise a note of caution before we just get on the rah-rah train.”

Interjection

rah-rah

  1. An expression of enthusiasm, expressed by high school and college cheerleaders at sporting events.

Noun

rah-rah (plural rah-rahs)

  1. (clothing) Ellipsis of rah-rah skirt.

Verb

rah-rah (third-person singular simple present rah-rahs, present participle rah-rahing, simple past and past participle rah-rahed)

  1. (ambitransitive) To express noisy enthusiasm (about).
    • 2004, Abbe Diaz, PX This, page 177:
      […] the official gen-art person was rah-rahing the organization how great and fabulous they are and i just wanted to roll my eyes. they were taking themselves quite seriously it reminded me of when we used to throw those charity fashion show parties in college […]
    • 2021, Oswald Eakins, Deep Inside Diana, The Pain and The Secrets:
      People rah-rahed about her good fortune of marrying a Prince, but no one, not even Diana had an inkling of what destiny had in store for her.

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