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rouser

rouser

1 5.2
A speech or song that makes an audience feel excited
  • noun
  • /ˈraʊzər/
translation icon : canción motivadora
  • The coach delivered a powerful speech that served as a true rouser for the team before the championship game.
  • rabble-rouser

Examples

  • When we finally scored, our own pep band fired up the Rouser.

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  • Many public US political forums are mud-slinging rabble-rousers, filled with drunken rants and jingoistic generalities fired in volleys.

    Blog text (7)

  • Rip Empson is a writer and rabble-rouser at TechCrunch.

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  • ARE YOU REALLY GOING TO MARRY THIS RABBLE-ROUSER?

    From the Hip (1987)

  • I sat back and got caught up in what the movie really was: the newfangled version of a totally old-fashioned Hollywood rouser, with Cruise, as Maverick, melding, for perhaps the first time, the American teenage rebel and the American traditionalist hero.

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  • His energetic performance was a rouser, motivating everyone in the audience to join in and dance.

  • The protest song became a rouser, inspiring people to rally for their rights and demand change.

Synonyms

electrifier
vsrouser
7.3

A person who makes others feel excited and full of energy

is used for performances that stir or energize audiences strongly
exciter
vsrouser
6.8

Someone or something that causes excitement in people and action in systems

applies specifically to performances that stir and energize an audience
engager
vsrouser
6.8

Something that attracts and keeps people's attention

focuses on creating strong excitement and emotional stirring of an audience

Antonyms

to bore
15 1.4

To make someone feel tired or not interested by being dull when you speak

Compounds

rabble-rouser
  • Literature
6 8.5

A person who makes a crowd angry or excited about politics

How Stirring

showstopper
7 5.7
rouser
1 5.2
rallying cry
12 5.6
anthem
109 3.5
tune
327 1.0

Surface Forms

rouser singular
rousers plural

Morphology

rouser = rouse (transparent) = rouse + er

The sense 'something that excites or energizes' is a straightforward instrumental/figurative extension of 'to rouse' formed with '-er'.

Etymology

Rouser comes from the verb rouse, which means 'to stir' or 'excite' and is the same root as arouse. That's why a rouser can mean a speech, song, or show that strongly excites an audience and gets people cheering.