Usually means: Support or cheer for someone.
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  1. root for: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. root for: Merriam-Webster
  3. root for, root for: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. root for: Vocabulary.com
  5. root for: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. root for: Wiktionary
  7. root for: Dictionary.com
  8. root for: FreeDictionary.org
  9. root for: Mnemonic Dictionary
  10. root for: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. root for: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (root for)

▸ verb:  (transitive, informal) To support (a favored person, team, or result).

Similar:
pull for, root, get behind, cheer on, support, cheerlead, cheer, advocate, roar on, affirm, more...

Phrases:
to root for, to root for someone, word whose root is latin for worthless, someone you root for, more...

Adjectives:
apply, advance, lead, approaching, initiate, set up, deliver, incoming, approximate, set, further

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Similar:
pull for, root, get behind, cheer on, support, cheerlead, cheer, advocate, roar on, affirm, more...

Phrases:
to root for, to root for someone, word whose root is latin for worthless, someone you root for, more...

Adjectives:
apply, advance, lead, approaching, initiate, set up, deliver, incoming, approximate, set, further



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