halloo
Americaninterjection
noun
verb
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to shout (something) to (someone)
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(tr) to urge on or incite (dogs) with shouts
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of halloo
C16: perhaps variant of hallow to encourage hounds by shouting
Example Sentences
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Boomers and howlers aplenty reverberated last week under western U. S. skies, advancing with gargantuan halloo on tinder-dry forests, wheat fields, grazing lands, defenceless towns.
From Time Magazine Archive
An ear-opener for listeners to whom the French horn is little more than an operatic halloo.
From Time Magazine Archive
The scent of corruption growing stronger, the hounds of public conscience began to break loose with an increasing halloo.
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Someone let out an halloo for Professor Murray.
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At last they emerged from the ferns, and Matthias, cupping his paws round his mouth, ventured a low halloo up at the wall.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
Over tilled hill and manicured dale they bounded with tally-hos, yoicks and view halloos, making life miserable not only for the fox, but for stolid farmers and their livestock.
From Time Magazine Archive
Seeing the pandemonium slacken, Teacher joins the spectacle, waves arms, shouts, yells, halloos, squeaks, bellows.
From Time Magazine Archive
Though Congress needed no encouraging yoicks, the press joined in with rousing view halloos.
From Time Magazine Archive
Time & again his visible audience burst into applause, cheers and halloos as if at a political rally.
From Time Magazine Archive
There was no point in yelling; the river was too noisy for his halloos to carry.
From "Abel's Island" by William Steig
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