# What is a "volley cheer"?

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**Created:** [December 4, 2008, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-volley-cheer/475760 "2008-12-04T22:38:59Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-volley-cheer/475760/1 "2008-12-04T22:38:59Z")

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From the “Notre Dame Victory March”:

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> Cheer, cheer for old Notre Dame  
> Wake up the echoes cheering her name  
> Raise a volley cheer on high . . .

What is a “volley cheer”? Does the phrase mean anything in particular?

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**Author:** ![stolichnaya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bcef8e/32.png) [@stolichnaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stolichnaya)\
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I think it just means a bunch of people cheering, as in a volley of arrows, or a musket volley.

[http://www.answers.com/volley](http://www.answers.com/volley)

Definition 2 seems to work: _A bursting forth of many things together: a volley of oaths._

Edit: Also, I know it as “_Send_ a volley cheer on high.”

But we take what we can get at Notre Dame, these days.