| 词汇 | booster |
| 词源 | booster. Sinclair Lewis’s Babbitt was a booster who wore a Booster Club button in his lapel. But Lewis didn’t invent the term in his novel. This term for an enthusiastic, often puerile supporter or promoter of a person, team, cause, etc., was born in the American Southwest in about 1890, quickly spreading throughout the country, and has its roots in the verb to boost. |
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