holler
1to cry aloud; shout; yell: Quit hollering into the phone.
to shout or yell (something): He hollered insults back into the saloon.
a loud cry used to express pain or surprise, to attract attention, to call for help, etc.
Origin of holler
1Words Nearby holler
Other definitions for holler (2 of 2)
a hollow.
Origin of holler
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How to use holler in a sentence
A moment later, the researchers’ whoops and hollers pierced the heavy mist blanketing Rwanda’s Nyungwe National Park.
How scientists found an African bat lost to science for 40 years | Anna Gibbs | March 30, 2022 | Science NewsNext I thought of actual ranches I’ve been to, where the water in play was usually brown hollers encircled by slurping cows or mud-slathered pigs.
How to make Ranch Water, the tequila-lime cocktail that keeps so many Texans cool | M. Carrie Allan | July 27, 2021 | Washington PostBooker ran in favor of the Green New Deal and Medicare-for-all, arguing that a relentless grass-roots campaign “from the hood to the holler could change the electorate.”
These voters told me that they’d watched opioids ravage their blue-collar communities, hills, hollers, and farm fields, while pharmaceutical companies rubbed elbows with regulators and laughed on their way to the shareholders’ meeting.
Political cynicism has given way to love in Christian America | jakemeth | October 28, 2020 | Fortune“The incoming Republican majority in the Senate was built on opposition to executive amnesty,” said holler.
As advertised, holler is not autobiographical in the same way that the works of Rodgers and Hammerstein are not autobiographical.
Broadway Was Made for Tupac | Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Marcyliena Morgan | July 7, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTInterestingly, what became holler If Ya Hear Me originally went to Wilson to write before it passed to Kreidler.
Broadway Was Made for Tupac | Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Marcyliena Morgan | July 7, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAnd holler If Ya Hear Me boasts some very fun redecorated Tupac tunes.
The Tupac Musical Hits Broadway: Kenny Leon’s ‘Holler If Ya Hear Me’ Is Crazy, Silly Fun | Marlow Stern | June 19, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe mainstream Tupac musical holler If Ya Hear Me is, in some ways, an act of defiance for the poet-actor-musician Saul Williams.
Broadway’s Rebel, Tellin’ You to Hear It: A Portrait of Saul Williams | Alex Suskind | June 17, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTWe kin git the papers to start a holler and have folks demandin' action of their representatives, and sich like.
Scattergood Baines | Clarence Budington KellandFather-in-law would holler if he heard the car, but Bud did not intend that father-in-law should hear it.
Cabin Fever | B. M. BowerThere's mighty strange things stirrin' on this here mountain, an' in the holler down yonder.
The Shepherd of the Hills | Harold Bell WrightW'en he git off little ways, he up 'n holler back ter Brer Fox dat he got a riddle he want 'im ter read.
Nights With Uncle Remus | Joel Chandler HarrisThere's them that 'lows there's things in this here holler t' be afeared of, an' I reckon hit's so.
The Shepherd of the Hills | Harold Bell Wright
British Dictionary definitions for holler
/ (ˈhɒlə) informal /
to shout or yell (something)
a shout; call
Origin of holler
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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