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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.





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"Halloo" Quotes from Famous Books



... few minutes, and then his dreaming mind traversed space with incredible rapidity. He was back in Pendleton, sitting on the portico with his mother, watching the flowers on the lawn nod in the gentle wind. His cousin Harry Kenton saluted him with a halloo and came bounding toward the porch, and the halloo caused Dick to awake and sit up. He rubbed his eyes violently and looked around a little bit ashamed. But two captains older than himself were sound asleep ...
— The Rock of Chickamauga • Joseph A. Altsheler
... fullness. Then we filled our teapot and went on. Men were reaping with their cradles in a field of grain and, as we neared the log house, a woman came out in the dooryard and, lifting a shell to her lips, blew a blast that rushed over the clearing and rang in the woods beyond it A loud halloo came back from ...
— Eben Holden - A Tale of the North Country • Irving Bacheller
... those rascals cause to laugh. But how, my friend, can I endure, Once so renown'd, to live obscure? No little boys and girls to cry, "There's nimble Tim a-passing by!" No more my dear delightful way tread Of keeping up a party hatred? Will none the Tory dogs pursue, When through the streets I cry halloo? Must all my d—n me's! bloods and wounds! Pass only now for empty sounds? Shall Tory rascals be elected, Although I swear them disaffected? And when I roar, "a plot, a plot!" Will our own party mind me not? ...
— Poems (Volume II.) • Jonathan Swift
... the rich man took a walk down by the river, he saw a dead branch that had been washed up by the tide. "Halloo!" says he, "this will do to kindle the ...
— Twilight Land • Howard Pyle
... them and their eager talk; and, pausing a bit, the more completely to surprise them by an intended halloo, he forgot that and all else ...
— Jessica, the Heiress • Evelyn Raymond


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