cheerleader
pronunciation
How to pronounce cheerleader in British English:
UK 
How to pronounce cheerleader in American English:
US
Word Origin
- cheerleader (n.)
- also cheer-leader, 1900, American English, from cheer (n.) + leader. Cheerleading is attested from 1906.
Example
- 1. Sometimes what a good friend needs from you is brutal honesty not a cheerleader .
- 2. To le figaro , a sarkozy cheerleader , it 's a british boycott to start the french presidency .
- 3. At first " cheerleader " was just a metaphor , but as her site became better known , cavalier began to hear from professional cheerleaders who were also scientists and engineers .
- 4. Aznar recently kicked off a more defensible campaign to drum up international support for israel , but the folks in tel aviv might want to consider whether he 's really their most effective cheerleader .
- 5. At the conference , one of the attendees said that while she was sympathetic to the idea of getting girls involved in science , she could never have been a cheerleader herself ; she " always hated those skinny bitches . "