Root for

Submitted by Don Juan on 2013-12-01

Meanings of "Root for"

English

To cheer and encourage someone or something

Explained by Don JuanDon Juan on Sun, 01/12/2013 - 00:18
Explained by Don JuanDon Juan
It should be noted that this expression is best avoided when addressing Australians, as "root" has a sexual meaning there when used as a verb. The equivalent in Australia is to "barrack for" someone. - ftetranslator 10 months ago
Russian

болеть за кого-л.

Explained by St. SolSt. Sol on Tue, 06/03/2018 - 18:21
Explained by St. SolSt. Sol

"Root for" in lyrics

Eminem - Rap God

Everybody wants the key and the secret to rap immortality like Ι have got. Well, to be truthful the blueprint's
Simply rage and youthful exuberance
Everybody loves to root for a nuisance
Hit the Earth like an asteroid

The Strokes - Life Is Simple in the Moonlight

Animals on TV singing about some pain that they once felt
There's no one I disapprove of more or root for more than myself
I wanted to pretend that it was better, better, better on the phone

Kanonenfieber - Verdun

They are raining down
The trench is a refuge
But it's also a grave 1

  • 1. In German "trench - der Graben" has the same root for "grave - Das Grab". Therefore the translation does not capture the Paronomasia used in the original.
    Would it be translated verbatim it would mean: "But there is a grave in the trench."

J. R. R. Tolkien - Sam's Rhyme of the Troll

Troll sat alone on his seat of stone,
And munched and mumbled a bare old bone;
For many a year he had gnawed it near,
For meat was hard to come by.

Edward Meeker - Take Me Out to the Ball Game

Buy me some peanuts and Cracker Jack
I don't care if I ever get back
Let me root, root, root for the home team
If they don't win, it's a shame

Rocco Hunt - A good day

No masters, we will steal their throne
There’s no lines in the offices (how what?!)
And even though you root for another soccer team
You’re still my brother

Central Military Commission Political Work Department Song and Dance Troupe - The Autumn Harvest Uprising Song

Workers and farmers, unite with one heart,
the Red power will take root for ten thousand years!
Hey! Ten thousand years, hey!

Efrat Gosh - See the Light

Oh, I saw my hidden path disappearing
Between forest walls, and thickening woods
And I felt my feet get caught in the clearing
In hard bleeding soil, begin taking root

Sam Fender - Talk to You

my failures are my prized possessions.
I don't deserve to talk to you,
but I hope that I can root for you.
Give 'em hell, darling!

Davina Michelle - Skyward

Higher
Make room for all the failures
Root for all the fighters

Bersuit Vergarabat - I touch and go

I touch and go,
The jersey is like a god,
(Of the team you root for your whole life)
I touch and go,

Peter Pepper - You're cool

Its not a crush
Its past that thought
I root for you
Against the lot

Prljavo kazalište - Don't cry for me

'Cause you,
you are something like
root for me..
..an old

Lil Darkie - Genocide

She feel calmer on cocaine (True story)
Don't rap for fame (Too whorey), bitch what you sayin'?
I'm Super Saiyan, you super plain (Root for me)
I take my pain, make the music, plant a bomb, can't defuse it

Caparezza - I Float, I Orbit

I attract the El Gordo cluster1 in the vortex,
I tip over Difool falling in the well in "The Incal"2
Even though I'm bot Buzz Aldrin,3 I root for space travels,
It's better than staying nailed to the bed like a fragile old man, new 2001:4

  • 1. El gordo is a very massive galaxy cluster
  • 2. In "The Incal", John Difoot falls into a well city and finds a mysterious magic artefact called Incal
  • 3. The second man to step on the moon after Neil Armstrong
  • 4. Referencing "2001: Space Odyssey"

Baseball Anthems USA - Lets's Go, Go, Go, White Sox (Chicago White Sox)

Go, go, White Sox!

Root, root, root for the White Sox.
We'll cheer you on to victory.

Crippled Black Phoenix - Bonefire

You are nothing but dead inside

You root for the rich, condemn the poor
On deaf ears, you ignore

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Sad Waters

Hair of gold and lips like cherries
We go down to the river where the willows weep
Take a naked root for a lovers seat
That rose out of the bitten soil

Jelena Karleuša - Who put a spell on you?

I do this, do this exclusively in the name of love

Almond root for good luck
When you have a breakdown, I won't

Fiona Apple - Valentine

I root for you, I love you
You you you, you you you you
I root for you, I love you
You you you