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First published 2005 (SND, online supplement).
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HAMPDEN ROAR, n. 1. The cheer of the crowd at Hampden Park football stadium in Glasgow.Sc. 1994 Independent 23 Mar 34:
Before the war, when such niceties concerned only the well-to-do few, those who created the Hampden Roar needed no cover in order to raise the roof. In 1937, Scotland's defeat of England was witnessed by a British record crowd of 149,415.Sc. 1996 Daily Mirror 14 Jun 46:
It was then that Goram first heard the Hampden roar in his favour when the faithful welcomed him with: "Andy Goram, Andy Goram, you're not English any more."Sc. 1999 Aberdeen Evening Express 29 May 12:
The first Old Firm final of the decade, which officially opened the new-look national stadium, kicked off to an ear-splitting Hampden roar.Sc. 2000 Sunday Mail 15 Oct 74:
Hutchison ... is better suited to away games. But he is not convinced Croatia are certs to silence the Hampden roar.Sc. 2004 Morning Star 23 Dec 9:
... what a wonder of wonders is Bradford's Dick Whittington, which maintains almost all the elements of the traditional panto, including the most important — the noisy engagement of an audience of kids of all ages, as essential a part of the show as the Hampden roar is of Scottish football.
2. Rhyming slang for score (Ags., Fif., Edb., Gsw. 2000s).Edb. 1993 Irvine Welsh Trainspotting (1994) 97:
It's aw oor poppy! Lenny snapped.—Granty kens the fuckin Hampden roar.w.Lth. 2000 Davie Kerr A Puckle Poems 60:
... Nae team o oors is saicent rate
an when we score,
we'll show them aa, they cannae bate,
oor Hampden Roar.
