Definition of "boosterism" [boosterism]

• The highly supportive attitudes and activities of boosters: "the civic pride and heady boosterism that often accompany rising property values” ( New York). (noun)

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• "Evidently, statin boosterism is just as rampant among British cardiologists."
• "Several people who know Kristol describe his Palin boosterism — his very public campaign to persuade John McCain to put her on the Republican ticket — as a schoolboy-like infatuation, sparked when a Weekly Standard cruise docked in Juneau."
• "I'm not sure that sort of overeager boosterism is really necessary, though he certainly does share some overlapping qualities with those creators."