Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Dismissal from one's job or from one's position.
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- interjection
exclamation used whenpulling , especially bysailors while pulling on arope - noun A cry of heave-ho.
- noun informal A
rejection , aforced removal (often in the phrase give/get the (old) heave-ho) - verb informal to
pull forcefully
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Examples
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I have to say that it kinda hurt my feelings to be given the heave-ho just for telling the dang truth.
My Navy Daze Bob Lamb 2011
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He wasn't so much endorsing zoophilia as suggesting that, if the last remains of sexual morality can be abandoned, why can't capitalism get the heave-ho too?
When the Multitude Shouts With One Voice Eric Felten 2011
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Didn't Heavey give the heave-ho to internet journalism?
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August 26th, 2009 3: 44 pm ET outrageous behavior got the congressman with the cash in the freezer the heave-ho, this is so much worse somehow.
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Sadly, after the Italian had proved his worth by winning a man of the match award and shipping 11 goals in four matches, he was given the heave-ho.
Arsène Wenger's goalkeeping blindspot is simply bananas Harry Pearson 2010
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Didn't Heavey give the heave-ho to internet journalism?
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I think after-school programs should give apple juice the heave-ho for another reason: It's ruining our kids' eating habits.
Dina R. Rose: Training Toddlers' Taste Buds: Juice vs. Froot Loops Dina R. Rose 2012
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I have been banned by Kate McMillan (for the crime of quoting some of her commenters), warned off by Mick Hartley (for defending Terry Eagleton too vigorously), and given a prompt heave-ho by Terry Glavin (who brooks no dissent of any kind at his place, as others will attest).
Archive 2009-05-01 2009
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I think after-school programs should give apple juice the heave-ho for another reason: It's ruining our kids' eating habits.
Dina R. Rose: Training Toddlers' Taste Buds: Juice vs. Froot Loops Dina R. Rose 2012
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Seventy of them to get the heave-ho by next April, from a total of 500, with more falling to the axe in the following months, halving staff numbers by 2013.
Diary Hugh Muir 2010
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