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Halloo   Listen
noun
Halloo  n.  A loud exclamation; a call to invite attention or to incite a person or an animal; a shout. "List! List! I hear Some far off halloo break the silent air."



verb
Halloo  v. t.  
1.
To encourage with shouts. "Old John hallooes his hounds again."
2.
To chase with shouts or outcries. "If I fly... Halloo me like a hare."
3.
To call or shout to; to hail.



Halloo  v. i.  (past & past part. hallooed; pres. part. hallooing)  To cry out; to exclaim with a loud voice; to call to a person, as by the word halloo. "Country folks hallooed and hooted after me."



interjection
Halloo  interj.  An exclamation to call attention or to encourage one. Now mostly replaced by hello.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Halloo" Quotes from Famous Books



... said her husband, 'how can you expect to feel like poets and lovers? And halloo! he is coming it strong! "Poems by A."; "The White Hind and other Poems"; "Gwyneth: a tale in verse"; "Farewell to Pausilippo", by the Earl of St. Erme. Well done, Percy! Are you collecting original serenades for Theodora? I'll never betray ...
— Heartsease - or Brother's Wife • Charlotte M. Yonge

... surprising progress; for, besides that agility of limb and courage requisite for leaping over five-barred gates, &c., our hero, by indefatigable study and application, added to it a remarkable cheering halloo to the dogs, of very great service to the exercise, and which, we believe, was peculiar to himself; and, besides this, found out a secret, hitherto known but to himself, of enticing any ...
— The Surprising Adventures of Bampfylde Moore Carew • Unknown

... a halloo, and waved his hand, and Polly danced up and down and called, and waved her hands too. And Phronsie gave a little crow of delight. "See, Grandpapa, there they are; I want Polly—and Jasper, too." And old Mr. King whirled around. "O dear me! Come down, both of you," which command it did not ...
— Five Little Peppers Abroad • Margaret Sidney

... have come a fortnight sooner than I wanted to come, because of Frank's letter. He seemed to think I could put you through. What has my father to do with it? Halloo! Here is old Caldwell. Must it ...
— The Inglises - How the Way Opened • Margaret Murray Robertson

... exertions, and who (clambering over that rampire I had builded long ago to my defence) fell at my feet and lay there speechless, drawing his breath in great, sobbing gasps. But his pursuers had seen and came on amain with mighty halloo, and though (judging by what I could see of them at the distance) they were a wild, unlovely company, yet to me, so long bereft of all human fellowship, their hoarse shouts and cries were infinitely welcome ...
— Martin Conisby's Vengeance • Jeffery Farnol


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