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hey
[ hey ]
interjection
- (used as an exclamation to call attention or to express pleasure, surprise, bewilderment, etc.)
- Informal. hello: used as a greeting.
hey
/ heɪ /
interjection
- an expression indicating surprise, dismay, discovery, etc, or calling for another's attention
- an exclamation used for emphasis at the end of a statement, or alone to seek repetition or confirmation of another person's statement
- hey prestoan exclamation used by conjurors to herald the climax of a trick
Word History and Origins
Origin of hey1
Word History and Origins
Origin of hey1
Example Sentences
Everywhere I go, ‘Hey Cartman, you must like Family Guy, right?’
Hey, whatever keeps those lecherous freaks from sexually assaulting humans is fine by us.
Then, last year, she received a call from Anderson: “Hey, do you remember when we met over ten years ago?”
But hey, maybe anti-regime posters wrote those, this being one place where it is open to being cyber-slimed.
On the one hand, these results say: Hey, there is real support for Democrats in the South.
Und you vos go owid on der blains und catch some counterfeiters, hey?
By the way, I've just found out why you was so anxious to get into this house, hey?
He stopped in his dressing to say, "We've struck a great boarding place, hey?"
Welting a man on the head with a whip-stock ain't anything, hey?
But the land is an enemy to be feared, while the Frenchman is not—hey!
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