rooter

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From root +‎ -er.

rooter (plural rooters)

1. One who, or that which, roots; one that tears up by the roots.
2. One who roots or rummages through something.
   • 1969, Stephen King, The Reaper's Image:

     Like so many of the self-made industry emperors of the late 1800s, he had been little more than a pawnshop rooter masquerading in collector's clothing, a connoisseur of canvas monstrosities, trashy novels and poetry collections […]

From root (“to cheer for”) +‎ -er.

rooter (plural rooters)

1. (US, slang) One who roots for, or applauds, something.
   • 2007, Vershawn Ashanti Young, Your Average Nigga: Performing Race, Literacy, and Masculinity, page 58:

     My oldest brother is a hefty twelve years older; we never quite bonded, though he's always been my supporter—a real rooter for me in academic studies.

• reroot, torero

rooter m (plural rooters)

1. (computing) router

rooter

1. (computing) to root