rooting interest

noun

a desire for, or interest in, the success of a particular person or group, often a sports team

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Meanings

nounrooting interest (plural rooting interests)

plural rooting interests

  1. idiomatica desire for, or interest in, the success of a particular person or group, often a sports team

    1945, {Unknown author}, Town Meeting "The very essence of drama is the creation of a rooting interest. In all your successful pictures, Connie, that rooting interest was the heroine, the character you played."

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APA

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Chicago

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