Definitions

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • See halloo.

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  • interjection A loud exclamation; a call to invite attention to something or to incite; a shout.

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Examples

  • The old man was only unnerved for a moment; then turning his back to the sea and putting his hands to his mouth, he gave a loud "halloa," which echoed across the silent bay, but brought no other response.

    A Child of the Glens or, Elsie's Fortune Edward Newenham Hoare

  • While we were examining the wreck we heard a distant "halloa" from the mainland.

    The Scientific American Boy The Camp at Willow Clump Island A. Russell Bond

  • There came a loud cry of "halloa," and Jasper went to the window.

    The Starbucks Opie Percival Read 1895

  • "It suggests -- halloa, my dear fellow, what on earth is the matter?"

    The Seriously Deranged Writer and the Model Cars 2010

  • Then he will play sentinel and go his rounds; if a prop or funnel wants supporting, he will set it up; and when the hare comes with the hounds behind her he will urge her forwards to the toils, with shout and halloa thundering at her heels.

    On Hunting 2007

  • It is the Inalienable Right of some among them, to take the field after THEIR Happiness equipped with cat and cartwhip, stocks, and iron collar, and to shout their view halloa!

    American Notes for General Circulation 2007

  • Ah, the Yordases were Yorkists — halloa! what is here?

    Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004

  • I gave a view-halloa, took to my heels, collared my gentleman, and brought him back to where there was already quite a group about the screaming child.

    The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde 2004

  • When you hear some wild halloa, informing you that one fox has gone in the direction exactly opposite to that in which the hounds are hunting, are you sure that the noise is not made about a second fox?

    Phineas Redux 2004

  • What the doose are they about — why, halloa, Darling!

    Springhaven Richard Doddridge 2004

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